John Peel playing and talking about the VU&N in 1967

[mangue]

Quit a while ago I came across the special Velvet Underground page on the John Peel fansite - https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Velvet_Underground
I then started to collect all the audio available there, tracks played incl.in- and outros. Just today, finally, completed it.

John Peel started playing tracks from VU&N in his show the Perfumed Garden on Radio London in the summer of 1967, when the album was not yet released in the UK. In 1967 October, after Radio London was closed down by the authorities, he moved to BBC Radio One.

Here you can download what I collected: https://www.mediafire.com/?ohdopt0gpue4xab

Note that the quality of the recordings vary and some tracks are cut, but most are more than OK.

Enjoy listening!

[marukomu]

The link gets caught by a bit of AI that thinks this is available on Amazon and you can't get to the actual link. Maybe it needs renaming? Is anyone else getting this issue?

[urchinn]

Yep...I can't get by the Amazon ad, either! Sounds like a cool listen, though!

[mangue]

The link gets caught by a bit of AI that thinks this is available on Amazon and you can't get to the actual link. Maybe it needs renaming? Is anyone else getting this issue?

I see what you mean.
On the list in my account it's mentioned as being restricted, because of copyright claim.
When I'm logged in at mediafire, I can access and download the file. When I'm logged out it seems impossible, even with a direct link I get again that amazon b*llsh*t.
So I deleleted the download link and file on medoiafire.

Now let me explain in more detail what's in the file/folder:
--original recorded broadcasts in which John Peel speaks about and plays tracks of the Velvet Underground & Nico album
--so it's tracks with in- and/or outros
--broadcasts from 1967.Jul.12 [Radio London] till 1967.Oct.01 [BBC Radio One]
--as bonus John Peel on 1993.Jun.11 speaking about efforts trying to get the VU in for a Peel Session*
note: all original audio is linked from this page https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Velvet_Underground

*I wonder if the French DJ Bernard Lenoir tried the same for his Black Sessions on RFI...

[mangue]

I see three+one options:
1.I send the whole file/folder to somebody who has a server and makes it available for downlownload
2.I cut out the talk by John Peel and upload it without mentioning any tracks nor VU
3.who wants it PMs me and I'll send it by mail
--another possibility might be renaming all the audio files, by deleting titles and bandname [so only Peel and broadcasting date remain] and with the included textfile, all is explained and detailed, what it is
don't know if this last option could work, as they [MF/A] might somehow still recognize the included tracks...

anyway I give it a try and here's new link
https://www.mediafire.com/?iqghqma1aeft2xl

hope this will stay OK, if not I have to back to the 3 first options...

[marukomu]

That one works. Thanks!

[DavidH]

Thank you very much for posting this! Just as a side note, sometimes Mediafire flags something as copyrighted, but if you close the window and reopen the same page (it might take a couple of times) it often shows the download link. In any case, this was a ridiculous flagging, but thanks for getting it back up.

[iaredatsun]

Very nice to hear these. Thank-you for the upload.

Naive question – where might these off-air recordings come from? I ask as there is another JP session recording I'd like to find.

[urchinn]

Got it now! Thanks so much...

[mangue]

Naive question – where might these off-air recordings come from? I ask as there is another JP session recording I'd like to find.

All Peel Sessions, incl. links to detailed info, can be found through this this page https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Session_Artists

If the audio you're looking for isn't available from there, you can register and directly ask the administrators of the John Peel Wiki, see https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Community