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Happy Hardcore
"We're just mad for this stuff here on this programme, I have to say, because it is so much in the spirit of where popular music has been since the days of Elvis. Elvis would have understood this I think because people curl their lips at it and say it's uncool” ... (read more)

Cravats
The Cravats were a neo-dadaist group from Redditch, UK, formed in 1977. The unstinting support of Peel never translated into commercial success, and The Shend would later state that the P.R.S. payments they received for sessions were the band's main income ... (read more)

There Is Some Fun Going Forward
The final release by Dandelion Records was a ten-track sampler LP issued in 1972 through Polydor at a budget price. The album is best known for the photograph on the sleeve that shows Peel naked in a bath with a topless model ... (read more)

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Kit

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John_Peel_about_The_Fall — John Peel about The Fall

Peel offers thoughts on his favourite band, in The Fall - It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline.

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Record Collection: Details of the first 100 LPs of each letter of John Peel's record collection were released at The Space website in 2012. All material is now available at John Peel Archive and YouTube. Since Sept. 2014, a new Record Boxes series features selections from the collection by key music figures. Latest:

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April 19 19 April 1973: Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Clifford T Ward, John Dummer's Ooblee Dooblee Band 19 April 1977: Heron, Supercharge 19 April 1979: records only 19 April 1980: Undertones, A Certain Ratio concert 19 April 1980 (BFBS) 19 April 1982: Associates, Nightingales 19 April 1983: Marine Girls, March Violets 19 April 1988: FSK, Heresy 19 April 1989: Walking Seeds 19 April 1990: Fatima Mansions 19 April 1992 (BFBS) 19 April 2000: DJ Food 19 April 2001: Zabrinski

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-|'''Distorted Waves Of Ohm'''<br />Distorted Waves Of Ohm are an electronic techno/acid group from Broadstone in Dorset that eschew live performance in favour of studio-created material. They recorded five tracks for Peel in their own studio, but to date the session has never been released ... [[Distorted Waves Of Ohm|(read more)]]
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-|'''Thomas Mapfumo'''<br />Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo, born in 1945 in Marondera, Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, invented and popularized Chimurenga music. In 1988, Peel saw him perform live in Zimbabwe under the name Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited ... [[Thomas Mapfumo|(read more)]]
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+|[[File:John Peel about The Fall|thumb|left|450px|Peel offers thoughts on his favourite band, in [[The Fall - It's Not Repetition, It's Discipline]].]]

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