Contents of John Peel’s Record Collection to be Made Public
 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! says it all

It would seem to me copyright laws would prevent this well intentioned endeavour- even the album covers are under copyright

You might be right, but I think it would be great if this would materialize. Kinda logical to expect some opposition by copyright holders as you mention, but I wouldn't think the lot of them would be against this. Maybe some stuff from John Peel's collection wouldn't make it into this project due to this but it would still be an amazing archive regardless.

Part of the problem would be the administration of finding out who owns copyright to what - I know a member of this forum works for PRS and he or she has mentioned what a ballache finding copyright on even very famous things can be a ballache - who'd be able to trace down all of (for instance) Principal Edward's Magical Theatre?

close reading leads me to believe that the archive would be available for a limited amount of time. maybe i'm wrong.

http://www.itv.com/anglia/fullprogramme/
(start at 17:45)


but I'm a bit confused, if he had over 65,000 records and they're going upload 100 a week between may and october then that's only a tiny amount of his collection not all of them which is what I got the impression was going to happen....

now if we could just get access to Thurstons

It's started... http://thespace.org

I don't know. I just tried and the screen went black like you said but after a few seconds the page loaded up. Try again.

try this link http://thespace.org/content/s000004u/index.html

the A's were pretty de minimus, IMO

It looks like it will just be the "first 100" LPs from each letter of the alphabet, which is kinda arbitrary, but given that the interface is so graphics-rich it would be an excessive amount of work to document the whole thing that way. The listening links take you to itunes or spotify. The Peel Sessions archival tapes sure would be nifty to snoop around in, so many unreleased ones.

Where's this?

I'm now using Google Chrome and I can see all the extra info that my old browser wouldn't display.

works with Opera, too. I now understand why the A's look so paltry, if they're only releasing 100 from each letter, it will be a pretty small collection.....though may be all he has from letters like Q, Z and X.....

"Suffolk Comforts": A 30-minute documentary, originally made by the BBC to celebrate John Peel's 50th birthday, but never broadcast until now:
http://thespace.org/items/e000006a/player#

B is for Babes In Toyland!

http://thespace.org/#

So do you think he had anything good?