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And in their warm hearted way they've completely ignored, actually, all of our requests, haven't replied to phone call or letters or indeed anything else. Played it extensively when the first LP came out in 1967 and all that kind of stuff. I really crept, you know, we sent messages along the lines of (I'm not quite sure if it was true – but it might well have been) that I was the first person to play their stuff on the radio. "And the mention of Moe Tucker gives me the opportunity to remind you, those people who have written to me or phoned me or I've bumped into somewhere and said "Are you going to get the Velvet Underground in for a session?" We made every conceivable effort to do this. On his show from 11 June 1993, Peel said the following: Peel tried to get the Velvet Underground to do a session in 1993, while they were touring Britain, but the band failed to respond. In 1997, the Guardian asked John Peel to list his Top 20 Albums and one of them was the group's debut album, Velvet Underground and Nico. The band reformed briefly in the early 1990s and Peel finally saw them live, at Glastonbury in 1993, although they failed to leave a positive impression, with the DJ comparing them to a highly proficient tribute band. The Velvets were also a major influence on the emerging punk-rock scene, which led to more plays on Peel's shows in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Although they had no commercial success they became favourites of many critics in the rock press, such as Melody Maker's Richard Williams and New Musical Express's Nick Kent, and their first LP was reissued in Britain as early as 1971. He continued to play tracks from the Velvets' later albums during the Top Gear years as their cult status grew. He soon forgot about the Eric Burdon LP, but would later refer to the Velvet Underground And Nico on-air as one of the most important LPs of 1967. The Velvet Underground and Nico LP is finally being released, together with E.
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In his International Times column of 27 October 1967 he writes:
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As a guest on the mid-morning show coffee break in July 1967 (Radio London), he talked to Pete Drummond about the group's debut album and played a couple of tracks from it. He obtained a US copy of the Velvet Undergound and Nico LP when he was on Radio London and it became one of the most frequently-played albums on the Perfumed Garden. Much earlier, he admitted to this untruth on 07 June 1980 (BFBS) I think I once told somebody that I had gone in to see them, but it wasn't true. Being a chap who's never been over-confident, I like to think, I went to go there, and just didn't have the nerve, so I went down the road to see the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band instead, which is something I thoroughly enjoyed, but I always regret that I never went in to see the Velvet Underground, cos they must have time and away been at their absolute peak, and certainly at their most astonishing. However, on the show of 05 January 2000 he said:Īctually, the Velvet Underground and Nico were playing in Hollywood when I was living in San Bernadino, California, as part of Andy Warhol's, what's it called, 'Exploding Plastic Inevitable' I think, and they were playing at some particularly trendy place. Peel was a big fan of the group and for a time claimed to have seen them perform while he was in America.