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"Disc, apart from John Peel's column, would seem to be an almost total waste of time and 6p." (Pete Frame surveying the pop press in Zigzag 24, 1972) Disc & Music Echo was a weekly music paper, which was aimed largely at a teenage readership and was at the peak of its popularity during the heyday of pop singles in the mid-1960s. Writers who worked for the paper included Jonathan King, the influential and outspoken singles reviewer Penny Valentine and "house hippy" Hugh Nolan, who later became a DJ, doing Peel-influenced programmes in the early 1970s for Radio Geronimo and Radio Seagull.

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  • "Disc, apart from John Peel's column, would seem to be an almost total waste of time and 6p." (Pete Frame surveying the pop press in Zigzag 24, 1972) Disc & Music Echo was a weekly music paper, which was aimed largely at a teenage readership and was at the peak of its popularity during the heyday of pop singles in the mid-1960s. Writers who worked for the paper included Jonathan King, the influential and outspoken singles reviewer Penny Valentine and "house hippy" Hugh Nolan, who later became a DJ, doing Peel-influenced programmes in the early 1970s for Radio Geronimo and Radio Seagull.
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  • "Disc, apart from John Peel's column, would seem to be an almost total waste of time and 6p." (Pete Frame surveying the pop press in Zigzag 24, 1972) Disc & Music Echo was a weekly music paper, which was aimed largely at a teenage readership and was at the peak of its popularity during the heyday of pop singles in the mid-1960s. Writers who worked for the paper included Jonathan King, the influential and outspoken singles reviewer Penny Valentine and "house hippy" Hugh Nolan, who later became a DJ, doing Peel-influenced programmes in the early 1970s for Radio Geronimo and Radio Seagull. In the mid-1960s, Disc included a weekly American column by former Beatles publicist Derek Taylor, then living in Los Angeles and doing publicity for artists such as the Byrds. In 1967 Taylor embraced the hippy culture and was one of the organisers of the Monterey Pop Festival. His Disc column exuded the "utopian positivity of the Love Generation....spreading the word of Love to the uninitiated British" (Jon Savage, Mojo, June 2017, p.71). He was the only writer in the British music press to express sentiments similar to those of Peel on the Perfumed Garden show on Radio London. Disc was home to a Peel column for several years from the late '60s, but the paper lost influence (and circulation) as the pop audience began to diversify - hence the Pete Frame comment quoted above. During the early part of the period Peel also contributed a column to International Times; then, occasional articles to The Listener. From 1973, he started writing for Sounds.
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