Do you have a favourite period in the history of rock oll?
PEEL: There’ve been periods that I’ve enjoyed more than others. I think the early 1970s was a kinda boring period because the only bands that got recorded were bands that contained at least one member of a previously successful band, so there was very little coming along that was really new. This was around the time that Roxy Music emerged. In fact they were almost the only band during the first three or four years of the 70s that didn’t contain a member of a previously successful band, so from that point of view they were very exciting for the time. But there’s always been something well worth listening to, there’s always been something going on. There is now, sometimes you have to look a little harder, a little further afield, but now with the spread of the Net, and the Web, and all these things, and the fact that more people overseas can listen to the programs and do they send you records so it has become a kind of global program now. I now have too many records, far too many, I get
