20 April 1969

== Show ==
; Name
*Top Gear
; Station
*BBC Radio One
; YYYY-MM-DD
*1969-04-20
; Comments
*The final Top Gear produced by Bernie Andrews and broadcast from 3-5 p.m on Sunday afternoon. John reads out a formal statement at the start of the show, saying that he doesn't understand the change at all, as Top Gear was Bernie's concept and that he's done more for music in the last year and a half than anyone else. He also promises to dedicate all of his future radio programmes to Bernie, "with love".
*There is a new Top Gear theme tune, by the Nice. Peel plays it in full at the end of the show.
*Peel has been sent a copy of the new Bob Dylan LP, Nashville Skyline, which, he says, doesn’t sound much like Bob Dylan. He describes it "a friendly record", like the last Beatles LP (he means the double LP later known as the White Album) and plays "Lay Lady Lay" his favourite track on first hearing.
*He announces the Eire Apparent session track as "Highway 61", but it's actually a cover of Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" rather than the blues song "Highway 61", recorded by Fred McDowell among others.
*Other cover versions on the show include Eire Apparent's version of "Gloria" - JP recalls that when he lived in Oklahoma he used to organise dances and "Gloria" was one of the three tunes every band wanting to play at dances had to know.
*Peel mentions that his Wednesday evening show has also been moved to a new time.
== Sessions ==
*Eire Apparent only session, recorded 15th April 1969. No known commercial release.
*Nice #6, recorded 4th March 1969. Available on BBC Sessions Castle CMFCD 457
*Taste #3, recorded 17th February 1969, repeat, first broadcast 09 March 1969. No known commercial release.
*Led Zeppelin #1, recorded 3rd March 1969, repeat, first broadcast 23 March 1969. Available on BBC Sessions (1997, Atlantic), and The Complete BBC Sessions. Only known off-air recording of this first session with John's intros
(Please add details of any commercial release of these sessions)
== Tracklisting ==
*File 5 begins at start of show
*Top Gear theme, over which John pays tribute to Bernie Andrews
*Junior's Eyes: Circus Days (7") Regal Zonophone RZ 3018
*Eire Apparent: Yes I Need Someone (session)
*Peel intro to next track: "These people played amazingly in Birmingham last Sunday"
*Fleetwood Mac: Man Of The World ("split" 7" with Earl Vince And The Valiants (Fleetwood Mac in their rock'n'roll disguise)- Man Of The World / Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonite) Immediate IM 080
*Peel intro $
*Taste: Wee Wee Baby (session) $ £
*Peel outro $ - the original of that was by Joe Turner
*Tyrannosaurus Rex: Nijinsky Hind (album - Unicorn) Regal Zonophone LRZ 1007
*Led Zeppelin: I Can't Quit You Baby (session) (JP: Willie Dixon’s I Can’t Quit You Baby)
*Bob Dylan: Lay Lady Lay (album - Nashville Skyline) Columbia KCS 9825
*Nice: I'm One Of Those People My Father Tells My Sister Not To Go Out With (session) @
*Jethro Tull: Living In The Past (7") Island WIP-6056
*Kak: Electric Sailor (album - Kak) Epic BN 26429 (JP:"an LP which Miles reviewed favourably" - in International Times)
*Taste: Hail (session) £
*Liverpool Scene: The Woo Woo (7") RCA Victor RCA 1816
*Eire Apparent: Highway 61 (session) This track is taken from an FM source
*Family: How-Hi-The-Li (album - Family Entertainment) Reprise RSLP 6340 (JP: "I haven’t forgotten that Leicester City are in the Final…")
*John has a couple of "guests" in the studio, whom he met at the Radio One Club
*Led Zeppelin: Communication Breakdown (session)
*JP:  "He must have incredible trouble with the blood vessels in his throat, that fella…."
*File 5 ends and File 6 begins
*Marsha Hunt: I Walk On Gilded Splinters (7") Track 604030 (written by Dr John and played on the show a fortnight ago, says JP)
*Nice: Azrael Revisited (session) @ -begins with quote from Isham Jones and Gus Kahn’s 1924 hit "I’ll See You In My Dreams")
*John promotes the Top Gear Smiling Section
*Donovan: The Sun Is A Very Magic Fellow (album - The Hurdy Gurdy Man) Epic BN 26420
*Blossom Toes: Peace Loving Man (7") Marmalade 598014
*Taste: I'm Moving On (session) £ ("JP: a Don Gibson song originally")
*Country Joe & The Fish: Pat's Song (album - I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die) Fontana STFL6087
*Nice: Blues For The Prairies (session) @ (JP: "an Oscar Peterson song")
*Peel outro @
*news, edited out
*Captain Beefheart & Magic Band: Yellow Brick Road (album - Safe As Milk) Buddah BDM 1001 
*Peel mentions the Beefheart LP is “now available as a record equivalent of a paperback" – it had just been reissued on Pye’s budget-price label Marble Arch (MAL 1117 )
*Led Zeppelin: Dazed And Confused (session)
*John plays the next track for several others whose association with Top Gear will end with the change in producer: Pam Tarrant, Alan Harris and Bob Conduct
*Flying Burrito Brothers: Christine's Tune (album - The Gilded Palace Of Sin) A&M AMLS 931
*Eire Apparent: Gloria (session) #
*Says he spent yesterday evening talking with 5 nurses from a London hospital, dedicates next track to all nurses
*Leonard Cohen: The Partisan (album - Songs From A Room) CBS S 63587
*Nice: Diary Of An Empty Day (session)
*Nice: Top Gear Theme (session) And this is to Bernie with thanks from several million of us. Bye Bye @
*File 6 ends
*Track marked # also on File 1
*Tracks marked @ also on File 2
*Track marked $ also on File 3
*Track marked £ also on File 4
== File ==
;Name
*1a) Eire Apparent - Peel session - Top Gear, 20/4/69
*1b) 1969-04-20 TG 20.4.69 Eire Apparent gloria
*2a) The Nice - Peel session - Top Gear 20/4/69
*2b) 1969-04-20 TG 16.3.69 The Nice 4 pieces
*3) Taste - Wee Wee Baby (Top Gear 1969)
*4) TasteRoryGallagher1968-08-05BBCTopGearStudioSessionLondonUK.mp3
*5) TG 20-04-69 Pt1.mp3	
*6) TG 20-04-69 Pt2.mp3	
;Length
*1) 2:34
*2) 15:10
*3) 5:00 (from 0:13) File begins with end of unknown acoustic guitar track
*4) 32:47 (22:03-32:36) (from 27:42 unique)
*5) 59:58
*6) 1:00:25
;Other
*1-2) Many thanks to Colin Harper. 1a and 2a have centred audio.
*Please address all re-up requests to Peel Mailing List.
*3) Many thanks to Rory Gallagher Rarities
*4) Full details at Sugarmegs. 
*5,6) Many thanks to Warwick Johns
;Available
*1a) Youtube
*1b) Mooo
* 2a) Youtube
*2b) Mooo
* 3) Youtube
*4) Archive.org
*5) Mooo
*6) Mooo
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