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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.
The Peel Sessions (Can album) Clawfist - The Peel Sessions; BBC Sessions (Cocteau Twins album) The Complete BBC Peel Sessions; The Complete John Peel Sessions (Gary Numan album) The Complete John Peel Sessions (The Jesus and Mary Chain album) The Complete Peel Sessions 1978–2004; The Complete Peel Sessions 1986–2004; The Complete Radio One ...
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 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.
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 first EP, The Peel Sessions, was released in 1986 by record label Strange Fruit.It features recordings made for John Peel's show broadcast on 14 February 1979, and was recorded at the BBC Studios in Maida Vale, London, England on 31 January 1979. [2]
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]
The Dandelion Records by Tractor and The Way We Live were reissued in the 2000s by Ozit Morpheus Records, as was a six-hour DVD about John Peel and some of the artists on Dandelion Records. This was released as a tribute to John in November 2008. It includes a contribution from his wife Sheila Ravenscroft.