Peter Asher
speaker
359 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Peter Asher’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yes, and we were never all three of us in something together.
That's why if you look at the casting directory of that era, it has to say in the black and white, alongside the black and white photographs, it says, all have red hair in big letters because that was not evident from the photos in the guide because they couldn't afford color printing at that point.
Everything was different.
The radio stations were completely different.
We only had the BBC.
You had all these brilliant little stations where the DJ actually played the records himself, which in the BBC never happened.
Somebody else put the needle in the groove and so on.
It was very organized.
And then as a jazz fan, the craziest thing was, you know, in England, when if a jazz, legendary jazz player came to England, they'd be playing concert halls and being treated with extreme respect.
And in New York, you know, there's all these jazz clubs and all our heroes were playing these places that were like scummy kind of smoke ridden little jazz clubs, which was very exciting for us.
but there was a huge difference in how they treated the music.
I already had copies of Downbeat with all the jazz clubs I wanted to go to circled.
I knew who was playing where and when and so on.
And I remember going to see people like Roland Kirk, whereas in England we'd see Thelonious Monk in Royal Festival Hall.
So their attitude to music was completely different, at least to jazz.
Absolutely.
Well, rationing, people are amazed to realize that rationing didn't end until 1956.
The last item, whatever was the last thing that was still rationed.
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