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Year-end countdown · John Peel (BBC Radio 1) · 1977

John Peel's Forgotten Fifty of 1977

The year-end countdown (1977) from John Peel (BBC Radio 1) ranks 61 songs, with “Dancing the Night Away” by Motors at number one. The list features 52 different artists; Motors has the most entries with four songs.

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Not a listener poll: Peel's producer suggested he compile his own personal list of favourite records of the year instead of running the usual vote, so 1977 has no Festive Fifty in the usual sense. The list was long thought lost and was only reconstructed from archive material for the 2007 book The Peel Sessions; it was not broadcast as a chart at the time.

# Song ListsBest
1 Dancing the Night Away Motors 2 #1
2 Uptown Top Ranking Althea & Donna 2 #2
3 You Beat The Hell Out of Me Motors 1 #3
4 I Can't Stand My Baby Rezillos 1 #4
5 Suspended Sentence John Cooper Clarke 1 #5
6 Smokescreen Desperate Bicycles 1 #6
7 Right Track Marlene Webber 1 #7
8 Like a Hurricane Neil Young 56 #8
9 Complete Control The Clash 9 #2
10 Be Good To Yourself Frankie Miller 1 #10
11 Holidays In The Sun The Sex Pistols 8 #11
12 Shadow Lurkers 1 #12
13 Truly Jays & Ranking Trevor* 1 #13
14 Pigs Pink Floyd 2 #14
15 Incendiary Device Johnny Moped 1 #15
16 New Religion Some Chicken 1 #16
17 See Them Come Culture 1 #17
18 Emergency Motors 1 #18
19 The Worm Song Yobs 1 #19
20 Box Number Boys 1 #20
21 London Lady The Stranglers 2 #21
22 I Don't Wanna Sham 69 1 #22
23 Pinhead The Ramones 1 #23
24 Freedom Connection Jah Woosh 1 #24
25 Can't Give You More Status Quo 1 #25
26 Blue Wind Jeff Beck 1 #26
27 White Riot The Clash 18 #15
28 Success Iggy Pop 1 #28
29 Your Generation Generation X 3 #29
30 Nobody Go Run Me King Short Shirt 1 #30
31 Love Story Lurkers 1 #31
32 Waiting In Vain Bob Marley 19 #32
33 Paradise Dr Feelgood 1 #33
34 Cruel Brother Five Hand Reel 1 #34
35 (I'm) Stranded The Saints 4 #35
36 Heroes David Bowie 93 #1
37 Sick of You Users 2 #37
38 Oh Bondage Up Yours! X-Ray Spex 9 #38
39 Lookin' After No. 1 Boomtown Rats 2 #39
40 No Man's Land June Tabor 1 #40
41 Neat Neat Neat The Damned 4 #12
42 The Dark End Of The Street Ry Cooder 1 #42
43 Questions Suburban Studs 1 #43
44 Feel Like Making Love Elizabeth Archer And The Equators 1 #44
45 I Knew The Bride Dave Edmunds 1 #45
46 Away From The Numbers The Jam 1 #46
47 Whole Wide World Wreckless Eric 4 #47
48 Green Onions Roy Buchanan 1 #48
49 Wild Dub Generation X 1 #49
50 I.R.T. Snatch 1 #50
51 Pretty Vacant The Sex Pistols 21 #6
52 John Willie's Ferret Oldham Tinkers 1 #52
53 Stepping Razor Peter Tosh 1 #53
54 Capital Radio The Clash 3 #54
55 Watching the Detectives Elvis Costello & the Attractions 3 #55
56 Bringing In The Morning Light Motors 1 #56
57 Beginning of The End Eddie and the Hot Rods 1 #57
58 Jocko Homo Devo 15 #58
59 Whatever Happened To The Buzzcocks 1 #59
60 Rocket In My Pocket Little Feat 1 #60
61 God Save the Queen The Sex Pistols 63 #3

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About this countdown

John Peel's Forgotten Fifty of 1977 was broadcast by John Peel (BBC Radio 1) in 1977. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: John Peel Wiki (Fandom), "1977 Festive Fifty".

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