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Obernkirchen Children's Choir
Peel’s first-ever gig was seeing Obernkirchen Children's Choir at Liverpool Stadium in 1954, taken by his mother “with a great show of reluctance.” Founded in 1949 for war orphans, the German youth choir enjoyed a major UK hit with ‘The Happy Wanderer’ after a BBC broadcast … (read more)

Transmitters
Transmitters were a post-punk band active intermittently between 1978 and 1989 who recorded two Peel sessions. They were notable for containing members of future groups: Sam Dodson and Dave Muddyman (Loop Guru), and Tim Whelan and Hammi Lee (Transglobal Underground) … (read more)

Transglobal Underground
Transglobal Underground are a London-based music collective specializing in a fusion of western, Asian and African music styles whose first four albums featured Natacha Atlas as lead singer. TGU gained two lower rung Festive Fifty entries and recorded two Peel sessions ... (read more)

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Joe_Boyd_on_Bob_Dylan's_demos — Joe Boyd on Bob Dylan's demos

Record producer Joe Boyd uncovers a Bob Dylan rarity while making selections in the first of a new John Peel Archive series of Record Boxes drawn from Peel’s record collection. (See Joe Boyd’s Record Box.)

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Record Collection: Details of the first 100 LPs of each letter of John Peel's record collection were released over 26 weeks at The Space website in 2012. The site's pilot run came to an end in October 2012. All material is now available at John Peel Archive, with videos at YouTube. 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 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

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