29 February 1972

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1972-02-29
; Comments
*Tracklisting below is from Volume 2(ii) of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*PasB says Asylum Choir track is ‘Down On The Base’. Ken Garner gives the second King Biscuit Boy session track as 'Hey, Hey'.
*Playlist shows a marked lack of progressive rock with only a couple of exceptions (Supersister, Jericho) but has a variety of singer -songwriters performing in various styles - country (Don Nix), soul (Arthur Alexander), pop (Emitt Rhodes, Kenny Young). By now, progressive fans would be catered for by other Sounds Of The 70s DJs.
*The news is read by Peel's future Radio 1 colleague Simon Bates. The miners' strike had recently ended, but there were still electricity power cuts, as mentioned in the bulletin.
*Peel plays a track from the third solo album by Jackie Lomax, a member of Merseybeat outfit the Undertakers before being signed to Apple Records by George Harrison. JP praises the guitar playing on this LP, by Bryn Haworth, later a Peel session artist in his own right.
*He also plays a track from the debut solo album by pioneering Christian rock musician Larry Norman, originally released in the US in 1969. According to Wikipedia, it sold 23,000 copies when it was released in England in 1972 on Key Records. Peel never showed much interest in Christian rock as a genre, but calls this “a very interesting record".
*Show opens with a track by Rodriguez, who had to wait until the twenty-first century to find acclaim. This was his second album, recorded in London and, as Peel points out, given a UK release, unlike the singer's debut LP.
*Playlist ends with a track which is "a very good imitation of Fats Domino to a Reggae beat", he says.
*The newly available audio (as of May 2020) is of very good VHF quality, other than some tracking and volume instabilities towards each end of a tape side.
== Sessions ==
*Stealers Wheel #1 First broadcast. Recorded 1972-02-14. No known commercial release.
*King Biscuit Boy #1 Repeat of only session. First broadcast 08 December 1971. Recorded 1971-12-07. No known commercial release.
*Emitt Rhodes #1 Repeat of only session. First broadcast 24 November 1971. Recorded 1971-11-23. No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Peel intro; he refers to himself as "the world's most boring man" and “the man who forecast the thrashing of Manchester City last Saturday"
*Rodriguez: Climb Up On My Music (LP - Coming From Reality) A&M AMLS 68073
*Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen: Wine, Do Yer Stuff (LP – Lost In The Ozone) Paramount PAS 6017 (US release) JP:"And that reminds me of some wild old times in McAllister, Oklahoma…")
*King Biscuit Boy: Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights) (session)
*Stealers Wheel: We’re On The Right Track (session)
*Jackie Lomax: Hellfire, Night Crier (LP – Three) Warner Bros. K 46151
*Emitt Rhodes: Really Wanted You (session)  (JP: “A nicely produced session by Pete Ritzema”)
*Kenny Young: Shake The City (LP – Clever Dogs Chase The Sun) Warner Bros. WB 2579
*Asylum Choir: Down On The Base (LP – 2) Shelter Recording Company Inc. SW-8910 (US release)
*tape flip
*Stealers Wheel: I Get By (session)
*Arthur Alexander: It Hurts To Want It So Bad (LP – Arthur Alexander) Warner Bros BS 2592 (US release)
*Supersister: No Tree Will Grow (LP – To The Highest Bidder) Dandelion (JP: “Starts off quite doomily, brightens up as it goes along…”)
*King Biscuit Boy: Hoy, Hoy (session)
*JP says that now that he lives in the country he’s “beginning to get into the Archers” but has stopped watching the popular TV series about a country doctor’s practice, Owen M.D "because there's too much sex and violence in it” (he’s joking)
*Emitt Rhodes: Birthday Lady (session)
*Larry Norman: Moses In The Wilderness (LP – (Upon This Rock) Key KL10
*News with Simon Bates 
*Jericho: Ethiopia (LP – Jericho) A&M ALMS 68079
*tape flip
*Ian Matthews: The Only Dancer (LP - Tigers Will Survive) Vertigo 6360 056 (Played in error, JP intended to play 'Morning Song')
*King Biscuit Boy: Cross My Heart (session)
*Matthew Ellis: Two By Two (LP – Matthew Ellis) Regal Zonophone SRZA 8501
*Emitt Rhodes: Bubblegum Cruiser (session)
*Little Feat: Cold Cold Cold (LP – Sailin' Shoes) Warner Bros. BS 2600 (JP is pleased to have a copy of this, their second album, and hopes it’ll be released in the UK, unlike their debut)
*Stealers Wheel: Jose (session)
*Don Nix: The Shape I’m In (LP – Living By The Days) Elektra K 42096 (JP reckons this will “sound great in VHF”)
*Emitt Rhodes: Love Will Stone You (session)
*Hookfoot: Flyin’ In The USA (LP – Good Times A' Comin') DJM DJLPS 422
*King Biscuit Boy: Biscuit’s Boogie (session)
*Stealers Wheel: Mary Skeffington (session)
*Al T. Joe: Oh What A Price (7") Dynamic Sounds DYN.429
*End of show..” flawlessly produced by your friend and mine John Walters..…be very careful, look after yourselves and have a nice time. Goodnight"
*Midnight news with Simon Bates (!); Shootings and attempted murders in Northern Ireland; Government forced to abandon first phase of debate on Common Market entry bill; cyanide dumping in Coventry and Nuneaton; power cuts reduced, more electricity will be available. “girl” (aged 31) in Belgium jailed for throwing ink over PM Edward Heath
*Long range forecast for March (!) and gale warning
*Intro to Night Ride with Peter Latham - “think of it as entertainment…”, he says. Tape ends
== File ==
;Name
*J P Top Gear 29 Feb 1972 complete.mp3
;Length
*2:03:24 (to 1:56:26)
;Other
*Many thanks to the original taper, and to Tim for purchasing from eBay and digitisation
;Available
* Mooo
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