Which 8 Gramaphone Records (to use the original wording) would you take? Mine would be: Nuages (Django Rheihardt) Unforgettable (Nat King Cole) Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks) Beethoven's 7th symphony Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata Si Beag Si Mor (Planxty) Red Red Robin (Billy Cotton) Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington)
Here's my 'off the cuff' list (it might be revised with a little time to think about it). In no particular order... Four seasons in one day (Crowded House) Hung up (Paul Weller) Mr Blue Sky (ELO) Wish you were here (Pink Floyd) A day in the life (The Beatles) Nimrod (Edward Elgar, Enigma variations) Jupiter (Gustav Holst, the Planets) Adagio in G minor (Tomaso Albinoni / Remo Giazotto)
Quick reply based on right now: Rhimsky-Korsakov - Scherezhade Mendelssohn - Fingals Cave (Hebrides Suite) Vaughan Williams-Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Metallica - Unforgiven Nirvana -Come as You Are Japan - Sons of Pioneers David Sylvian - Orpheus
Not sure of the specific albums but I’d like a bit of Led Zeppelin, stranglers , The Who , The Police , Elton John , Marc Bolan, Elbow and David Bowie
Who's Next - The Who Layla - Derek and the Dominos Muswell Hillbillies - The Kinks Decoration Day - Drive-by Truckers Silverbird - Leo Sayer Labour of Lust - Nick Lowe 52nd Street - Billy Joel Woodface - Crowded House
Not a bad song amongst them in my opinion. Enough variety to avoid getting into a rut. Songs from each of these have appeared on my radio show in the last 5 years. I might just stick a few in tomorrow.
My first list was singles (or single tracks). If we're going to talk albums, I'd probably take the following; Hunky Dory (David Bowie) The rise & fall of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars (David Bowie) Avalon (Roxy Music) Love over Gold (Dire Straits) Out of the Blue (ELO) Ghost in the Machine (The Police) Rio (Duran Duran) Wish you were here (Pink Floyd) Showing my early '80's sentimentality with a few of those (I was a mad vinyl single & album collector until about '85)...
From my friend's recently-published autobiography: At Newcastle I was a regular performer at the "Hootenanny" and covered many Bob Dylan songs. One evening some 'long haired gits' were watching me and, at the break, asked me if I would front a new band they were putting together. I already had a spell with band playing at school and I knew that it would take up too much time and my course was very tough. I turned them down. Next time I saw them, Bryan Ferry was their front man. I was once asked to perform at party at the Uni Yatch Club at Tynemouth. Ferry's band followed me and he asked over the mike if anyone could play bass as theirs had not turned up. I had played a bit and volunteered. I have to confess, I was not very good and Ferry kept scowling at me.
I enjoy the show, and listen to it most weeks. Lauren Laverne has an attractive voice & is a good sort ....at least compared to Roy Plomley.
"When television came roaring in after the War they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better". Alistair Cooke
Did you hear the one with the surgeon who was working in Syria 2 or 3 years ago? He came back every 3 or 4 months to get treated for PTSD, then off again to the nearest thing to hell on earth. The word hero is overused, but that man was a true hero in every sense of the word, and it was the most memorable edition of Desert Island Discs ever IMO.
Quite a varied selection here, but no jazz, folk or blue grass. What would your book be, apart from the bible and Shakespeare? Mine would be Far from the Madding Crowd.
