Johm Peel helped launch studios in Rochdale and Heywood and the Deeply Vale PA system in 1972 when he released he Tractor album
40 years later as we approach John Peel day we celebrate John's link with Rochdale with a new double lp called The Road from Townhead mill - john Peell fell in love with Rochdale whilst working in Townhead Mill in 1959 as a cotton labourer
watch and listen to one of the newly discovered 1970s tracks recorded in Rochdale and Heywood