27.6.06
And now it's time for a grim German football song
The internet is a marvellous thing, it really is.
This evening I have been listening to an mp3 of John Peel, filling in for Jakki Brambles on lunchtime Radio One in 1993. The great man started the show with 'Lost in Music' - not the Sister Sledge version, oh no, but The Fall...'of course that's the b-side of the new single 'Why Are People Grudgeful' says Peel. The typical Jakki Brambles listener stares at the radio and prays that the next tune will be Simply Red. Sadly for them, it's Jimi Hendrix, from a Peel session in 1967, a cracking version of the Beatles' 'Day Tripper'.
This is followed by 10 minutes of German happy hardcore, giving way to George Michael, and you can hear the sighs of relief up and down the land.
Peel then announces the daily 'PJ Harvey slot', at which point '50 ft Queenie' crashes in, sounding twice as loud as anything else on the programme. By now, a few disgruntled faxes are beginning to appear, one of which apparently reads 'John Peel, please stop'.
No chance of that however, as dancehall reggae seques into old time piano blues, German oom pah, more hardcore bleeping and whooshing, and the occasional foray into the Radio One playlist (seems very odd to hear Peel announcing Jamiroquai and Madonna...)
We shall never see his like again.
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