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A feast of great music and chat with Joan Armatrading

Singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading joins Mark and Stuart to share her 'First, Last and Everything', and chat about her fifty years as a performer.

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

Today, Joan Armatrading joins Mark and Stuart to share her 'First, Last and Everything' - that鈥檚 the first record she owned, the most recent one she鈥檚 enjoyed and the record that means 鈥榚verything鈥� to her.

The singer-songwriter moved to Birmingham from St. Kitts at the age of seven, and went on to teach herself to play the piano and guitar. She released her debut album Whatever鈥檚 For Us in 1972 and became best known for her songs Drop The Pilot, The Weakness In Me and Me Myself and I. She is celebrating 50 years as a performer by releasing The Weakness In Me, a book of her lyrics and scores, and a new live album, recorded at London鈥檚 Asylum Chapel.

Also on the show... long-running feature 鈥楾he Chain鈥� which gives listeners the chance to pick a track that links in some way to the last. The list now contains over 8000 songs.

With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.

2 hours

Last on

Sat 19 Nov 2022 08:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Kate Bush

    Cloudbusting

    • EMI.

  • Say She She

    Fortune Teller

    • Prism.
    • Colemine Records.

  • The Libertines

    I Get Along

    • Rough Trade records.

  • The Hues Corporation

    Rock The Boat

    • Million Sellers Vol.14 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Local Natives

    Just Before The Morning

    • Loma Vista.

  • Underworld

    Dark & Long

    • Junior Boys Own.

  • Gretel H盲nlyn

    Drive

  • Hailey Beavis

    Anything That Shines

  • New Order

    Dreams Never End

    • In Order.
    • Qwest/Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Maya Hawke

    Sweet Tooth

    • Mom & Pop.

  • Teenage Fanclub

    What You Do To Me

  • Tame Impala

    Elephant

    • Modular.

  • Young Fathers

    I Saw

    • Ninja Tune.

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • COLUMBIA.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

    • Single Mixes.
    • RCA.

  • Gorillaz

    Baby Queen

    • Parlophone.

  • Maja Lena

    Clear As The Water

  • Joan Armatrading

    Love And Affection

    • Joan Armatrading - Live at Asylum Chapel.

  • The Killers

    Quiet Town

    • Pressure Machine.
    • The Killers - 2020 P&D/ Island.

  • Amy Winehouse

    Back To Black

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Island.

  • Gaz Coombes

    Don't Say It's Over

  • Mantronix

    King Of The Beats

    • Virgin.

Broadcast

  • Sat 19 Nov 2022 08:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music