The Perfumed Garden: The Original Artwork By Ken Hayes Created For John Peel's Article In The Magazine 'Gandalf's Garden',1967, gouache on artboard, hand-painted by Ken Hayes (Graphics Dept) as an illustration to accompany an article by John Peel in Issue No.1 of the sub-culture magazine 'Gandalf's Garden'. The centrepiece of the artwork reading John Peel all at sea in the galaxy with the names of bands such as The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and Donovan among others in the design around it, signed and dated '67 by the artist in the bottom right corner, the back of the board with a handwritten football score Chelsea 1 - Liverpool 2, 14 1/2in x 24 1/2in (37cm x 62cm)Footnotes'The Perfumed Garden' was the name of John Peel's late-night programme on the British pirate radio station, Radio London in 1967. After working in the USA in commercial pop radio, Peel returned to the UK and joined Radio London in March 1967. As well as various slots on Radio London's usual three-hour daytime shows, Peel was given the midnight to 2am slot, then called 'London After Midnight'. Gradually it dawned on me that no one was actually listening to this programme – I mean, no one in the Radio London office, and certainly none of the people on the ship. So I started to improvise a little bit and gradually stopped running the ads and so on, and playing more of this music that I had brought back from America with me. And also adding a British dimension with people like the Incredible String Band and Hendrix and Pink Floyd, I suppose, Tyrannosaurus Rex, all these sort of people. I called the programme the Perfumed Garden." - John Peel Running from May-August 1967, 'The Perfumed Garden' blossomed and celebrated the weird and the obscure. John refused to play hit lists and top 40s, preferring to concentrate on underground acts such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Captain Beefheart, John Fahey and Fairport Convention. He also played albums in their entirety, which was considered to be crazy at the time and would never have been allowed at the BBC. The first the Radio London management knew of his programme was when it began to gather glowing reviews in the music press and when the station's London office received an appreciative letter from The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. Peel's listeners also sent in letters and poems to him; for many, the programme was an introduction to the music and beliefs of the flower power era. 'Gandalf's Garden' was a publication focusing on a 'mystical community' which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie-underground movement. The magazine emerged in 1968 and ran for 6 issues. This artwork can be seen on Page 8 of Issue No.1 alongside John Peel's article 'A Dawn Walk In The Mind Of The Musical Gardener', published 1st May 1968.
The Perfumed Garden: The Original Artwork By Ken Hayes Created For John Peel's Article In The Magazine 'Gandalf's Garden',1967, gouache on artboard, hand-painted by Ken Hayes (Graphics Dept) as an illustration to accompany an article by John Peel in Issue No.1 of the sub-culture magazine 'Gandalf's Garden'. The centrepiece of the artwork reading John Peel all at sea in the galaxy with the names of bands such as The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, The Rolling Stones, The Byrds, Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and Donovan among others in the design around it, signed and dated '67 by the artist in the bottom right corner, the back of the board with a handwritten football score Chelsea 1 - Liverpool 2, 14 1/2in x 24 1/2in (37cm x 62cm)Footnotes'The Perfumed Garden' was the name of John Peel's late-night programme on the British pirate radio station, Radio London in 1967. After working in the USA in commercial pop radio, Peel returned to the UK and joined Radio London in March 1967. As well as various slots on Radio London's usual three-hour daytime shows, Peel was given the midnight to 2am slot, then called 'London After Midnight'. Gradually it dawned on me that no one was actually listening to this programme – I mean, no one in the Radio London office, and certainly none of the people on the ship. So I started to improvise a little bit and gradually stopped running the ads and so on, and playing more of this music that I had brought back from America with me. And also adding a British dimension with people like the Incredible String Band and Hendrix and Pink Floyd, I suppose, Tyrannosaurus Rex, all these sort of people. I called the programme the Perfumed Garden." - John Peel Running from May-August 1967, 'The Perfumed Garden' blossomed and celebrated the weird and the obscure. John refused to play hit lists and top 40s, preferring to concentrate on underground acts such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Captain Beefheart, John Fahey and Fairport Convention. He also played albums in their entirety, which was considered to be crazy at the time and would never have been allowed at the BBC. The first the Radio London management knew of his programme was when it began to gather glowing reviews in the music press and when the station's London office received an appreciative letter from The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein. Peel's listeners also sent in letters and poems to him; for many, the programme was an introduction to the music and beliefs of the flower power era. 'Gandalf's Garden' was a publication focusing on a 'mystical community' which flourished at the end of the 1960s as part of the London hippie-underground movement. The magazine emerged in 1968 and ran for 6 issues. This artwork can be seen on Page 8 of Issue No.1 alongside John Peel's article 'A Dawn Walk In The Mind Of The Musical Gardener', published 1st May 1968.
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