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Gallon Drunk
Gallon Drunk are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1988 and recorded one Peel session. The DJ seems to have been particularly fond of their brooding cover of Dick Dale's Miserlou, calling it "surfing for the suicidal" ... (read more)

Vytas Serelis
Vytas Serelis is a visual artist and musician who emigrated to Australia with his parents in 1950. In early 1969, John Peel hosted a series of concerts featuring Tyrannosaurus Rex, supported by David Bowie as a mime artist and Vytas Serelis playing sitar ... (read more)

East Of Eden
East Of Eden were a British progressive rock band who had a UK Top 10 hit with the single Jig-a-Jig in 1971. In 2012, guitarist Geoff Nicholson recalled Peel being "the only person who championed our sort of music" ... (read more)

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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:

(Sept 2015): Brian Eno's Record Box

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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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