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50 Year Anniversary Bands

Mark and Stuart present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast. Today they celebrate a selection of bands that formed 50 years ago this year.

Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast.

On today's show, they celebrate a selection of bands that formed 50 years ago year. They discuss and play their favourite music from bands such as The Modern Lovers, Gentle Giant and Earth, Wind & Fire who all got together in 1970.

Also on the show, Clare Crane has the best music and entertainment stories of the past week in ‘This Week In Music’.

Plus... a whole host of quality radio items including 'Crisps on the Radio' and 'Sampled Underfoot' which this week explores the samples used in the latest single by The Avalanches.

You can take part in The Chain, choosing a track for our world-famous list of interconnected songs, as it approaches number 8000! With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.

3 hours

Last on

Sat 25 Apr 2020 08:00

Music Played

  • The Housemartins

    Sheep

    • Go! Discs!.
  • Cornershop

    Highly Amplified

    • Ample Play Recordings.
  • SBTRKT

    Pharaohs

    • Young Turks.
  • Danny Paul Grody

    Other States

    • Sketch for Winter VI: Other States.
    • Geographic North.
  • Becca Mancari

    Hunter

    • Captured Tracks.
  • Cream

    I Feel Free

    • Polydor.
  • Dirty Projectors

    Overlord

    • DOMINO RECORD CO LTD.
  • Angel Olsen

    What It Is

    • Jagjagjaguwar.
  • The Beat

    Too Nice To Talk To

    • Go Feet.
  • The Roches

    Hammond Song

  • The Avalanches

    We Will Always Love You (feat. Blood Orange)

    • Virgin / EMI.
  • Can

    Dizzy Dizzy

    • Soon Over Babaluma.
    • United Artists.
  • Roots Manuva

    Witness (1 Hope)

    • Big Dada Music.
  • Bishop Nehru

    Too Lost

    • Nehruvia LLC.
  • Rufus & Chaka Khan

    Once You Get Started

    • VIRGIN.
  • Depeche Mode

    I Feel Loved

    • Universal Music Tv.
  • Psychic Markers

    Clouds

  • Frankie Knuckles

    Your Love

    • Trax.
  • Greentea Peng

    Ghost Town

    • Different Recordings/TENNN.
  • Belle and Sebastian

    Step Into My Office Baby

    • Rough Trade Records.
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson

    Want Fi Goh Rave

  • The Stone Roses

    Made Of Stone

    • Silvertone.
  • Public Practice

    Compromised

    • Wharf Cat Records.
  • Yvonne Baker

    You Didn't Say A Word

    • 20 Original Mod Classics.
    • 008.
  • Gong

    And You Tried So Hard

    • Camembert Electrique.
    • Virgin Records.
    • 2.
  • Kelly Lee Owens

    Melt!

    • Smalltown Supersound.
  • Lafayette Afro-Rock Band

    Darkest Light

    • Strut.
  • Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

    New England

    • Roadrunner, Roadrunner: The Beserkley Collection CD1.
    • Sanctuary Records Group.
    • 15.
  • Gentle Giant

    Just The Same

    • Free Hand.
    • EMI.
  • Earth, Wind & Fire

    Fantasy

    • The Best Of Earth Wind & Fire.
    • CBS.
    • 5.
  • The Streets

    Call My Phone Thinking I'm Doing Nothing Better (feat. Tame Impala)

    • Island Records.
  • Poppy Ajudha

    Low Ride (feat. Mahalia)

    • Poppy Ajudha 2020.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Apr 2020 08:00