The John Peel Tribute single: "Ever Fallen In Love"

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Just saw the video last night, "exclusive" on Channel 4

Vid: A schoolgirl takes her shirt off. I think John would have approved.

Apart from that... wtf?

I mean, it sounds like the re-recorded Buzzcocks, with one guest vocalist. Um, nice if it went number one, but what's the point really? reissuing the original would have been better.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:37 (twenty years ago)

more details here.

i mean, it is his son's idea, so fair play. don't know i can get excited about it, however. a much better tribute to peel is robert wyatt & friends live at drury lane '74, which came out on cd this week and has a superb introduction by the man himself.

i don't see wyatt in the proposed line-up for "ever fallen in love." haven't seen the video but really that is the sort of thing we could do without. peel wasn't a kiddy fiddler. get over it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:45 (twenty years ago)

The Datsuns? wtf?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:48 (twenty years ago)

Well, I wish it well and all that.

I thought the video was more about the 'romantic' aspect of John Peel, pirate of the airwaves etc., in all seriousness.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Who's singing on it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:54 (twenty years ago)

Daltrey, I hope.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

i like the bit where you go "well that's Hooky on bass obv"

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:44 (twenty years ago)

xpost it doesn't sound like him, I was expecting it to be Daltrey.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

I mean, Roger Daltrey singing the Buzzcocks in 2005 - what is the world coming to?

Wouldn't it have been a more ingenious idea to get in Pete Shelley of "Love Me Love My Dog" fame to do the lead vocal?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:57 (twenty years ago)

It should have been a duet by Feargal Sharkey and Roger Chapman - Lambtastic!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

Maybe it is Daltrey and Plant, together at last.

I haven't heard it though.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

The Datsuns? wtf?

Indeed, his taste definitely wasn't infallible. They're on the mix cd he did for Fabric.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

infallible stfu

― nob jockey, Friday, 14 October 2005 10:21 (twenty years ago)

Thanks for your interesting contribution,

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

This is why whenever I start a thread I always make it registered users only.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 14 October 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

He was the first in the country to play The Datsuns, he brought them over from New Zealand after hearing them when he was on holiday there. They did a live set at Maida Vale, and it was rather good fun really.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Peel was a huge Datsuns fan. I want to know how the hell Elton John got involved (not to mention some of the others). Somebody said it elsewhere, but the Fabriclive comp he put together is far more representative of Peel than anything happening this week.

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Maybe we should be grateful we didn't get a new recording of "Candle in the Wind."

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Elton did a peel "session" in the 70s

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

I would have liked to have heard Extreme Noise Terror covering "Needle in a Haystack."

― TRG (TRG), Friday, 14 October 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Is the video or track available online?

― buzz hype, Friday, 14 October 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I also have seen the video and am wondering if it is available online???

― David Francis, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

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