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#TheWho6Music - help create a 50th-anniversary playlist

Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to create a Who-inspired playlist to mark the band's 50th anniversary.

Tom Robinson invites 6 Music listeners to create a Who-inspired playlist, marking the band's 50th anniversary.

This week The Who unveiled their brand new single 'Be Lucky' - their first new material in eight years - to mark the band reaching its half century this year. All royalties from the single will be donated to Teen Cancer, the charity set up by Roger Daltry and Pete Townshend in 2011.

It's ahead of their anniversary tour which kicks off in November, the same month as the release of their forthcoming 'Who Hits 50' career-spanning compilation, featuring their very first recordings as The High Numbers right up through to present day.

Listeners are invited to create an unmissable playlist themed around these rock'n'roll icons - whether classic tracks and rarities by band itself, music from their 60s peers, acts they've influenced, collaborations or any other interesting musical connection.

Suggestions are invited by Twitter via #TheWho6Music, posting on the show blog or the 6 Music or Now Playing Facebook pages, dragging tracks onto the show's collaborative Spotify or Rdio playlists, or the other usual live show contact methods.

2 hours

Music Played

  • The Who

    Be Lucky

  • The Jam

    So Sad About Us

  • The Yardbirds

    Heart Full Of Soul (Radio 1 Session, 5 Jun 1965)

  • Muse

    Knights Of Cydonia

    • CD SINGLE.
    • A&E.
  • Thunderclap Newman

    Something In The Air

    • Columbia.
  • The Who

    I'm The Face

    • Universal.
  • The Who

    Pictures Of Lily (Top Gear Session, 10 Oct 1967)

  • Pearl Jam

    Why Go - Finsbury Park 1992

  • Sex Pistols

    Substitute

  • The Who

    Tattoo

  • David Bowie

    I Can't Explain

  • The Who

    5.15

    • POLYDOR.
  • Ride

    Leave Them All Behind

    • Ignition Musik.
  • Small Faces

    Tin Soldier

    • Million Sellers Vol.8 - The Sixties.
    • Disky.
  • The Who

    Magic Bus

    • POLYDOR.
  • Pete Townshend

    Save It For Later

  • The Who

    Who Are You

  • Fatboy Slim

    Going Out Of My Head

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Stone Free - 麻豆社 Session

  • head to head runner up Johnny vegas

    • The Who

      Love Reign O'er Me

  • head to head winner bill nighy

    • The Who

      Won't Get Fooled Again

Broadcast

  • Sun 28 Sep 2014 18:00