Fact #190284
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Short story:
BBC Radio 1 deejay John Peel plays There Must Be Thousands by The Quads, for the first time. Peel's continuing support for this single is considered to have been the major impetus in turning it from an obscure indie release into a minor hit single.
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John Peel : I keep hoping that I'll be asked to do Desert Island Discs again on the radio here in Britain. I've done it once, but Arthur Askey did it three or four times, I think.
"Who's Arthur Askey?", you're probably asking. If I did, I think I'd put the Quads record in there, for no other reason other than to acknowledge those bands that kind of briefly flame through the night sky before disappearing without a trace, but leave behind them one or two great records, and I have to say I would not swap my single of There Must Be Thousands for the entire recorded works of Oasis or Radiohead.
(20 December 1999 (BFBS))
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"Who's Arthur Askey?", you're probably asking. If I did, I think I'd put the Quads record in there, for no other reason other than to acknowledge those bands that kind of briefly flame through the night sky before disappearing without a trace, but leave behind them one or two great records, and I have to say I would not swap my single of There Must Be Thousands for the entire recorded works of Oasis or Radiohead.
(20 December 1999 (BFBS))