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Compact Discs
Compact discs, or CDs, are digital sound carriers developed in the late 1970s. It is well-known that Peel distrusted the 'magical' qualities of CDs and constantly strove to seek out vinyl pressings of albums for his collection in their stead. He made no bones about his prejudices in this area ... Read More >

British Library
In an article from the Guardian newspaper , journalist Alex Petridis interviewed Sheila Ravenscroft at Peel Acres about Peel's record collection and how he was concerned with what would happen to them after he died, even to the extent of discussing with the British Library about them ... Read More >

A Good Read
A Good Read is one of BBC Radio 4's longest-running programmes that began in 1977. In an episode broadcast in 2001, Matthew Parris and his guests, broadcaster John Peel and comic actress Arabella Weir discussed books by Tracy Chevalier, Joshua Slocum and Arthur Mathews ... Read More >

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John_Peel_Shows_us_some_of_his_Rare_Records_-_Rare_Precious_Beautiful-0 — John Peel Shows us some of his Rare Records - Rare Precious Beautiful-0

Peel in Rare, Precious Or Beautiful shows some of his rare records and introduces some of the rarest records ever made, plus interview with Pete Brown, Spring and Roy Wood and a complete overview of EMI`s Harvest releases.

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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:

(Dec 2015): Simon Raymonde's Record Box

If you have tapes of vintage Peel shows that you would like to share or get help converting to digital formats, please contact the Peel Mailing List, where you will find many people keen to help you.

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On This Day

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 1986 (BFBS) 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

Online Updates

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