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Chris Evans presents a fully interactive show for all the family, featuring music, special guests and listeners on the phone.

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Wed 5 Aug 2015 06:30
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Music Played

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Hurts

    Some Kind Of Heaven

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Blue Swede

    Hooked On A Feeling

    • Tarantino's Favourites (Various Artists).
    • Disky.
    • 7.

  • The Archies

    Sugar, Sugar

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Nina Simone

    Ain't Got No, I Got Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Prefab Sprout

    The King of Rock 'N' Roll

    • Hits Album 8, Part 2 (Various Artist.
    • Hits Album.

  • David Bowie

    The Jean Genie

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • 补鈥恏补

    Under The Makeup

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • The Troggs

    With A Girl Like You

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • Train

    Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Johnny Cash

    Ring Of Fire

    • Johnny Cash - Man In Black.
    • Columbia.

  • Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • Bryan Adams

    Summer Of '69

    • Bryan Adams - The Best Of Me.
    • Mercury.

  • XTC

    Making Plans for Nigel

  • The Wonder Stuff

    The Size Of A Cow

    • Now 1991 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

  • Queen

    Another One Bites The Dust

    • The Game.
    • Island.
    • 3.

  • The Maccabees

    Something Like Happiness

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Baker Street

    • Songs Of The Century (Disc 2).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Hong Kong Garden

    • The Best Of Siouxsie & The Banshees.
    • Polydor.

  • Will Young

    Love Revolution

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Bluebells

    Young At Heart

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • R.E.M.

    It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

    • R.E.M. Singles Collected.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    The Riverboat Song

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
    • 3.

  • Rachel Platten

    Fight Song

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Herman鈥檚 Hermits

    I'm Into Something Good

    • The Hits Of 1964 (Various Artists).
    • MFP.

  • Green Day

    Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

    • Green Day - Nimrod.
    • Reprise.

  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • ABBA

    Take a Chance on Me

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 003.

  • Lauren Housley

    Ghost Town Blues

    • (CD Single).
    • Big Bad Recordings.
    • 001.

  • The Soggy Bottom Boys

    I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow

    • O Brother Where Art Thou?.
    • Mercury.
    • 7.

  • The Who

    Substitute

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 005.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

I鈥檝e often fantasised that the Glen Ballroom in Llanelli could have been the making of me as an impresario. A group of us once organised a gig at this, the hottest spot in town. I did publicity and money. Others did music and dance. It should have been synch. But it was dull and oh so predictable, a flop. Unlike another show at the Glen which I鈥檝e just been reading about in a cutting from the local paper, the Llanelli Star. It tells how, exactly fifty years ago and just a few weeks after our miserable effort, four young men walked into the Wild West of our youth and gave the performance of their lives. Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Keith Moon and John Entwistle, who鈥檇 only just decided to call themselves The Who, electrified the well brought-up young people of Llanelli. It was literally a smash hit - the group broke up all their instruments at the end of the show. One man took home half a tambourine as a souvenir. Everyone went home happy 鈥� and deaf.聽

One of their songs that night (still on their repertoire) was called Substitute. It bemoans the way we so often feel we have to pretend to be someone we鈥檙e not in order to win some attention. Lies are substituted for fact. We end up feeling like frauds. The song puts its finger on something we can all recognize. Somehow, though we know what鈥檚 good and right, we end up doing things we鈥檙e ashamed of. And then again, confronted with something we know to be false and fatuous, and against all our better instincts, we end up embracing it, clinging to it for dear life. Dear old Saint Paul said that a couple of thousand years ago. Fings don鈥檛 change do they?

Relationships should always be built on the truth so that we can look each other in the eye and acknowledge each other for the people we are. There鈥檚 no substitute for that.聽

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