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Rory Gallagher – John Peel Session for Top Gear – February 5, 1973 – Broadcast February 8, 1973 – BBC Radio 1 – Rory Gallagher in session for John Peel tonight. A lot of fond memories associated with Rory Gallagher. In the early 70s he seemed to be in an...
The Pretty Things – In Session at The BBC – 1965/1967 – BBC Radio 1 – The Pretty Things were, if you remember, part of that initial wave of British Invasion bands which hit these shores in 1964/1965. They were, without a doubt, one of the rawest, most primal and...
Benny Carter – Maria Muldaur – in conversation with Nat Hentoff – August 26, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Maria Muldaur, who had scored a huge hit in the early 1970s with Midnight At The Oasis, had been well established in the New York Folk Scene since the...
The Boys – In session for John Peel – August 3, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – As you all know, 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the dawn of Punk – yes, 40 YEARS AGO! Hard to imagine, but like every sweeping movement in Pop Culture, it came with...
– The Rolling Stones – In session At The BBC – August 20, 1965 – BBC Radio 1 – From a documentary about Rock at the BBC in the 60s comes this session from the Rolling Stones. The last one they would record, on August 20, 1965. It featured their...
– The Pretty Things – In Session at The BBC – November 27, 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – It’s often been said that, had it not been for fate and Art School, it may have been The Pretty Things, instead of the Rolling Stones, as the Greatest Rock n’...
– That Petrol Emotion – Live At Reading University – October 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – An oldie-but-a-goodie tonight. Set by That Petrol Emotion, recorded at Reading University in October of 1990 by the venerable BBC Radio. That Petrol Emotion were originally from Northern Ireland, with the exception of...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Faces (w/Rod Stewart) – In Concert for John Peel – July 5, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 No sooner is the tribute run for Bobby Keys, but word of another passing of another Rock icon. Ian McLagan,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – James Brown – live at the 1981 Montreux Festival – RSR (Swiss Radio) It’s the Godfather of Soul this weekend – the legendary James Brown, recorded in concert at the 1981 Montreux Festival. There isn’t a whole lot anybody can say...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Pretty Things in concert at Roadburn 2013 – VPRO Radio Anyone who is reasonably familiar with the history of The Rolling Stones knows The Pretty Things factor in there during the early days. Under a previous incarnation as Little Boy Blue...