Archive paperwork shows how the audition panel sat through Communication Breakdown, Dazed and Confused and I Can't Quit You Baby, but didn't think they were a particularly valuable act, although in the end they were allowed to record for the Beeb.

The audition panel slammed David Bowie as "devoid of personality" and Marc Bolan "crap - and pretentious crap at that". And when Led Zep auditioned for a John Peel session, the same panel thought Jimmy Page could play guitar well, but the rest of the act lacked merit - despite being confronted with a set of future classics. - more on this story