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Peel Sessions 1979–1983; The Peel Sessions 1988–90; The Peel Sessions 1991–2004; The Peel Sessions (1991 Happy Mondays album) The Peel Sessions Album (Billy Bragg album) The Peel Sessions Album (Wire album) The Peel Sessions (1989 Happy Mondays album) The Peel Sessions (Trumans Water album) Pixies at the BBC; The Peel Sessions (Prong EP)
This is a list of artists (bands and individual musicians) who recorded at least one session for John Peel and his show on BBC Radio 1 from 1967 to his death in 2004. [1] The first session was recorded by Tomorrow on 21 September 1967, and the last by Skimmer on 21 October 2004.
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1 , broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.
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The Complete Peel Sessions comprises each of the twenty-four sessions the group recorded for John Peel's radio show. Peel was an avid supporter of the group from early in their career, and the Fall recorded more sessions for Peel's programmes than any other artist. The set was in the process of being compiled when Peel died in October 2004.
The band, formed in late 1976, recorded and sent their demo to Peel (the demo itself would go on to receive some airplay [1]).Its cover was purposefully designed in "striking blue and yellow (used later on their debut LP), so it could be seen “without reading it, even in a pile” specifically for the benefit of John Peel and his producer John Waters [sic]". [2]
John Peel of BBC Radio One invited Number One Cup to appear on the BBC in 1996, when he was sitting in for Mark Radcliffe on Radcliffe's show. In July 1996, the band, under the alias The Eleventh Hour, recorded a full LP of material, and released a 7" single on Wurlitzer Jukebox Records, in the UK. [ 5 ]
The label, established by Clive Selwood and John Peel in 1986, was the primary distributor of BBC recordings, including Peel Sessions. [1] The name came from the song written by Abel Meeropol and famously performed by Billie Holiday, itself a reference to racially motivated lynchings. [1]