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- Madness session: August, 1979

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I look forward with great anticipation to your comments on this one…

Going to junior school (junior high to Americans among you) in the South of England in the late ’70s and early ’80s meant only one thing: you were a Madness fan. Failure to like this band could lead to a duffing up on the playground. Girls of course had the luxury of being able to like Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, but such behaviour would never do among the boys. Nevertheless, I’d only just turned 6 when this was broadcast, as had my peers, so failure to stay up and listen to the Peel show wasn’t really a beating up offence.

Madness’ only Peel session, recorded 14th August, 1979:

Track list

The Prince
Bed And Breakfast Man
Land Of Hope And Glory
Stepping Into Line

Lineup

Mike Barson (Keyboards)
Suggs (Lead Vocals)
Mark Bedford (Bass)
Woody (Drums)
Chris Foreman (Guitar, Vocals)
Lee Thompson (Saxophone, Vocals)

Convenient ‘listen now’ option:

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November 5th, 2009 at 11:17 am

Posted in 1979,Artists,peel wiki,The John Peel show,The Peel sessions

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- The Peel 400 at the JP Wiki

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I’m glad to say that the John Peel Wiki that I started (and then proceeded to neglect) is now becoming a valuable resource for documenting Peel’s radio shows. This is perhaps the best way to document the the so-called ‘400 Box‘ of approximately that number of cassettes featuring material from the John Peel show between 1978 and 1982, purchased jointly on eBay by the John Peel newsgroup in July 2008. The first show from this formidible collection is now available in digitised fromat for your listening consumption. Details of the wonderful 7th July, 1978 show are available here.
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Written by Adam

August 13th, 2008 at 11:58 am

Posted in 1978,peel wiki,the 400 box

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