John Peel plays the Bhundu Boys

May 1986: Number 41 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of World and Folk musicOn his Radio 1 show, John Peel was just as likely to play dub, country, salsa, Afrobeat and Mongolian throat singers as he was Nurse With Wound B-sides at the wrong speed. One obsession of Peel's was a Zimbabwean band called the Bhundu Boys, brought to his attention by Scottish musician Champion Doug Veitch. Veitch had signed them to his Discafrique label in 1985 and brought them to the UK in May 1986. W...

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