From Basement Jaxx to Beatles to Bad Manners...

20/04/2025
From Basement Jaxx to Beatles to Bad Manners...
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A sideways look through music at some of the oddest stories of the week (the tennis player demanding her opponent put some deodorant on.. Americans going 'bonkers' over Britishisms...) and a few tunes picked out to celebrate a pair of birthdays ... the usual very broad mix of sounds!
We also mark the anniversary of the 1st Jamaican artist to hit the UK number one ... and Prince/TAFKAP/Symbol's first UK chart topper!

THE BEATLES Hey Jude
DIZZEE RASCAL Bonkers
SNARKY PUPPY Mean Green
WAFFLE KILLERS Mass Murder
THE COOKIES Subway Funk
OLIVER HELDENS, NILE RODGERS I Was Made For Lovin' You
BUDDY GUY Smell the Funk
L7 Right on Thru
RED EYE PARIAH Draw Your Own Map
AC/DC Have a Drink on Me
C.J. PENN Bang Bang!
THE JACKSONS can You Feel It
BAD MANNERS Just a Feeling
STATUS QUO Something Bout You Baby I Like
PRINCE The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
UB40 One in Ten
QUEEN Killer Queen
PET SHOP BOYS, DUSTY SPRINGFIELD What Have I Done to Deserve This
ADAM AND THE ANTS Kings of the Wild Frontier
WINGS Mull of Kintyre
JOHN DENVER Take Me Home, Country Roads
BASEMENT JAXX Jump n Shout
DAVID MCWILLIAMS The days of Pearly Spencer
DAVID LEE ROTH Yankee Rose
BLODD, SWEAT AND TEARS Go Down Gamblin'
DAVE GAHAN, SOULSEEKERS The Dark End of the Street
BOB + EARL Harlem Shuffle
APACHE INDIAN The Israelites
THE SLITS I Heard It Through the Grapevine
THE TEMPTATIONS Get Ready
THE CURE In Between Days