ANOTHER ‘just the music’ man, on the early eighties morning show which included gardening tips from Alan Titchmarsh, before manning the smooth Vandross-heavy soul-lite shift for donkey’s years, as well as a Friday night sports show. Famously declares to all and sundry that he was the last person ever to interview John Lennon. Whether you ask him or not.
PEEBLES, Andy
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Glenn A
July 10, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Football was unfashionable in the mid eighties, soul music wasn’t what most people wanted on a Friday night, could this be the most unlucky radio show ever. It would be a bit like Bob Harris presenting prog rock and cricket features in the mid nineties. However, I would have probably liked that.
Richard Davies
July 11, 2012 at 8:17 pm
He had (& might still have) a show on Smooth Radio called Soul & Soccer on Saturday afternoons.
John
January 6, 2015 at 3:56 pm
I’ll never forgive him for playing a record about 29 years ago on a saturday show he did by Terry Reid. He described Reid as “the popular Terry Reid”. But Terry Reid was not popular! His current album hadn’t even made the Top 100!
I can never forgive – I can never forget!!!
John
January 6, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Actually hang on – it might’ve been Richard Skinner..
Glenn A
February 7, 2015 at 6:47 pm
Now before the latest one from Luther Vandross, I have Kevin Keegan on the line to discuss Newcastle’s game tomorrow. Quite a strange mix, football and soul music, and I suppose fair play to Peebles for helping the music through a bit of a rough patch in the early to mid eighties and also football was going through a nightmare period where hooliganism and falling attendances meant it was totally unhip.
BungoBilly
October 16, 2015 at 3:55 pm
As well as football chat, Peebles was also a cricket commentator on Sunday afternoons, I think on the old Radio 5. He always seemed to be covering Lancashire’s Sunday League games at Old Trafford.
THX 1139
March 28, 2020 at 11:59 pm
I remember Steve Wright saying Data from Star Trek had the look of a young Andy Peebles.