Long before the advent of the Internet, it was common practice during the 1970s for JP to play whole albums on air, since they counted as 'review plays' (a term which skirted the BBC's needle time restrictions), and in his pirate radio days, rules did not apply. He was not the only DJ by any means to do this: in the late 1960s and early 1970s British DJs, listeners and journalists looked with envy at FM rock radio in the USA, where no needle time restrictions applied and featuring an entire album was commonplace. As rock music began to be taken more seriously, the practice crossed the Atlantic to Radio One; Alan Freeman, for example, played the entirety of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here in a quadrophonic mix. However, with the increased sophistication of tape recording and the record indu