21 June 1973

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1973-06-21
; Comments
*Tracklisting below is from Volume 3 of the Decktician Logs. Many thanks to Decktician, Ken Garner for copying and additional information, and Rocker for acting as central HQ.
*Show produced by Bernie Andrews. Before the final track Peel gives its alternative title - "You're Not Going Out Dressed Like That".
*Two Leadbelly cover versions in Back Door's session - "Linin' Track" and "Roberta". 
*Andy Roberts' "Living In The Halls Of Zion" seems to describe a visit to a Rastafarian community in Jamaica, but after the track Peel remarks "I guess Andy’s been in Ethiopia..."
*News items give a snapshot of the era - strikes and industrial disputes, bombs going off in Northern Ireland, local government corruption ("the Poulson case"). But the lead item in both bulletins is a threat by the tennis players' Professional Association to boycott the upcoming Wimbledon tournament. 
*Peel revisits the 1960s with a novelty Beatles cover by American "singer" Mrs Miller and favourites by Leonard Cohen and John Fahey. After the Fahey track he gives the catalogue number of his copy of the album - the original release on Riverboat RB1 and thus an easy number to remember.
*He also plays a track from Earth Opera's 1968 debut album on Elektra, which he has recently rediscovered - he mentions that "since I’ve been playing tracks from Earth Opera….people have been writing and saying how much they like them" and thinks that the band could have been “before their time”
*At the end of the show JP says he has to go to Hull - "I quite like Hull" - and that he's looking forward to the "Tubular Bells" concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the following Tuesday. He makes his closing comments over an (unknown?) acoustic guitar piece, rather than the Top Gear theme tune.
== Sessions ==
*Back Door #2. First broadcast. Recorded 1973-06-18.
**No known commercial release.
*Andy Roberts #2. First broadcast. Recorded 1973-06-11.
**No known commercial release.
*Gypsy #2 Repeat. First broadcast 31 May 1973. Recorded 1973-05-21.
**No known commercial release.
== Tracklisting ==
*Mrs Miller: A Hard Day's Night (LP - Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits) Capitol
*Back Door: Dancin' In The Van (session)
*John Entwistle: Peg Leg Peggy (LP - Rigor Mortis Sets In) MCA Artist documented by Decktician as 'Rigor Mortis'
*Andy Roberts: Harvest Of Tears (session)
*Jimmy Reed: My Bitter Seed (LP - source unknown)
*Gypsy: The Jig (session)
*Kevin Ayers: Hymn/Beware Of The Dog (LP - Bananamour) Harvest
*Back Door: Linin' Track (session)
*Space Opera: Gurter Suite (LP - Space Opera) Epic
*Andy Roberts: All Around My Grandmother's Floor (session)
*Faust: unknown (LP - The Faust Tapes) Virgin Decktician logs "End Of Side 1".
*File starts below
*Peel says he’s surprised to find that “the LP” (by Faust?) is in the album charts
*Gypsy: You Got To Me (session)
*Ba Ba Thomas: Miss Shake It (v/a LP - Rock And Roll Vol. 3) Collector
*Robey, Falk & Bod: Kentucky Gambler (LP - Kentucky Gambler) Epic
:(11 p.m news with Eugene Fraser: Dispute between lawn tennis authorities and professional players’ association who’d thereatened to boycott Wimbledon ; Cod War fishing dispute  – collision between support tug and Icelandic gunboat; Northern Ireland - soldier killed in bomb explosion named  – two more explosions in Dungannon tonight; most of Scotland’s newspapers won’t be published tomorrow due to “escalating union disruption”; car production at all Chrysler plants to stop tomorrow evening because of “shoddy work” dispute in Coventry; police investigating the Poulson case; clashes in Paris between extreme left and extreme right demonstrators; Nixon-Brezhnev summit - agreement signed, to talk about arms limitation)
*Mott The Hoople: All The Way From Memphis (LP - Mott) CBS
*Back Door: Lieutenant Loose (session)
*Linda Jones: Let It Be Me (LP - Your Precious Love) Turbo 
*Andy Roberts: Hobo Bill's Last Ride (session) (JP: "a Jimmie Rodgers song")
*Earth Opera: Time And Again (LP - Earth Opera) Elektra
*Gypsy: Still You're Not Sure (session)
*Christie Hennessy: Far Away In Australia (LP - The Green Album) Westwood (JP says somebody gave him a copy of this LP, on "a small Welsh label". According to Wikipedia only 500 copies were pressed)
*Back Door: Back Door (session)
*Pure Prairie League: Take It Before You Go (LP - Pure Prairie League) RCA Victor (JP mentions he's played this track on the show before, because it contains one of his all-time favourite guitar duets)
*Andy Roberts: Living In The Halls Of Zion (session)
*John Fahey: I Am The Resurrection (LP - Volume 5 - The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death) Riverboat RB1
*Gypsy: Let's Roll (session)
*Back Door: Roberta (session)
*Leonard Cohen: Sisters Of Mercy (LP - Songs Of Leonard Cohen) CBS
*End of show
==File==
;Name
* 1a) John Peel presenting ‘Sounds of the 70s’ on 21st June 1973, on BBC Radio 1 (inc. news bulletins)
* 1b) 1973-06-21 Top Gear.mp3
;Length
* 1:25:52 (until 1:10:50)
*
;Other
* Many thanks to Toothy TTP
*
;Available
*1a) YouTube
*1b) Mooo
;Footnotes
Category:1973
Category:Peel shows
Category:Top Gear
Category:Available online