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'87 was that amazing Smiths session featuring Half a Person, London etc wasn't it? Plus a bucket load of The Fall?
Or am I thinking of 86 maybe?
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Nah, you're correct.
Each year it was a ritual of buying TDK C120 tapes,
and,
being ready, with the finger on the record button as each section of the F50 was broadcast.Both The Fall and The Smiths, and The Wedding Present for that matter,
had had too many tracks in the F50, splitting their voting, as the countdown approached the No.1Part of the attraction of the F50 was it reminded you what had been featured through John Peel's shows, what you had enthused about, and what you had missed.
I can't remember if I had heard Sugarcubes Birthday before this show,
but,
Anne Nightingale then played it as frequently as The Waterboys Whole of the Moon.
mespilus
A link to a Guardian article is pretty much my modus operandi.
I always thought the '87 Peel Festive 50 was the best.
I now need to check who else from the C86 'graduated'.
Obviously plenty of Wedding Present, but who else?