Is away. And yes Michael starts lyrics I love them. To 4 o'clock you can hear. And 7 then. Because it's his birthday it's $106.00 today more about that later in the program but I thought it would be a nice bet where from talking throughout the next 2 hours and if me talking over by over is going to annoy you. Also on the program this week new music from the. Man my only guest on the program this year. In fact I'm going to play that in a 2nd we've also boyscout cloth who are Glaswegian 3 piece songs for God this week from listeners Tom in Bristol Nick Jones. Judy Judy Nichols I think it is Peter your actual test Chodron and Mark Hilton a bumper harvest of songs to guy at the back drop by a couple of examples sent by you guys all great sax solos. Now to ponder what you think might be my favorite Queen song this is a prerecorded program so no point getting too much. I mean to get in touch for everything and anything but won't read out for a week but just a little teaser what do you think is my favorite Queen song. In an hour and a bit and I'm very very flattered say we've been given a world exclusive from Shannon lay her album is My Album of the year this year more about that later on and I have the world exclusive on a single That is no on the album a really beautiful new song from Shannon lay a willed exclusive. There we go from. Here is my cuckoo and who can only guess this year and then we were on Jools Holland with him as well. I've seen enough of Michael this year to to call him a friend become friends of them his new album is like all his music just brilliant Michael cure Nuka and I've been dazed. Mushroom jackass quite a few nicknames and. The Lithuanian lodger. A my favorite the chairman when the chairman's in bed me my wife like to go on the round the corner sofa with our heads together and watch t.v. Drama of a high quality. The Sopranos which is just amazing and and race didn't think she'd like in them we worked through it he set a standard in t.v. For putting contemporary music on the end credits you could never predict what it was going to be. Nice and sometimes it was old Sometimes it was weird contrary one point it was John Cooper clock over like a crazy be doing chicken town. And then one day it was this chain the valley thanks to. I found out that it was by law slow boss who I only knew for the big singled out the name of which I forgot right now anyway this is really beautiful if it's from the album the town in the city Thank You to The Sopranos for setting Radio should this mission is all space not sure. So In Bristol for the. Whole time and she calls me home. And this. Right so these are the birthdays I'm not going to bother you with the year but just imagine a dinner party. In a posse. Diego Rivera the painter e.c.c. Get to create. A 1000000 shall the Austrian swish to direct from. The Odessa File a bridge too far. Davy carried on of confluent Kill Bill fame James go away and Jim Morrison all sharing that birthday. Today also on this day in 1055 the flag of Europe was revealed and adopted by the Council of Europe and on this day 907 the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by us President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the White House this is a clip from The Sound Archive of Mr go go boots off his translator lightning moods join President Reagan slightly pompous speech. And after we've heard we're going to hear a song for Guy recommendation from Nick Jones about cold cruel sea and a song called too fast for me so Reagan goal but you off in the Crow see the importance of this treaty transcends numbers we have listened to the wisdom of in an old Russian maxim and I'm sure you're familiar with it Mr General Secretary though my pronunciation may give you difficulty. The maxim is no pro vi trust but verify that the FISA does not change and this Guy recommendation from Nick Jones that was too fast for me. Because. This is Charlie Mingus and the title of the song is really good advice better get it in. News it to say I'm Katherine Cracknell both Labor and the conservatives are driving home some of their key manifesto pledges as the last week of election campaigning gets underway Boris Johnson has promised a points based immigration system while Labor has focussed on its offer of free social care for older people the leader of the s.n.p. Nicolas sturgeon warned labor it would have some big explaining to do if in the event of a hung parliament it ignores her party's demands for a 2nd independence referendum my key priority. Because I think. We will offer our support to government with certain conditions attached. To change its name to the Reform Party after the u.k. Least the e.u. The party's leader Nigel Farage said it would campaign for changes to the voting system and the abolition of the House of Lords hundreds of thousands of people have filled the narrow streets of Hong Kong to take part in a peaceful March demanding political rights it's the 1st time since April police have allowed a rally to take place these people explains why they were there. Was. The police. Were. Old man has been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated his public order. Pledge to issue a lifetime ban to anyone found guilty of racist abuse after United players said they were targeted yesterday's Darby nearly 1000 traps by landslides and flooding in a remote New Zealand town France years of on the South Island is completely cut off more than 70 Swans have arrived at a nature. Even the phenomena Ninus one for the barracks one flew into the wild file and Wetlands Trust its name bridge in Gloucestershire on the final leg of migration from Russia. Needs the next update is at $330.00. 6 is where you now on b.b.c. Sound 6. Cizik and the other was about if you talk about the fact when you go out on stage was it a lot of performing for terrorists that you went out on stage and you almost cultivated the hate you because you played to the people that were hating. That was my only weapon fighting back with talent and eventually. I remember one of the 1st reviews. Of any importance that I ever received in New York in the early fifty's and we were an opening act still an opening act but had moved up were getting $3500.00 a week 2500 dollars week and I was and we were still living in Harlem and the man said 5 minutes after he starts to perform. You forget he's short. You forget he has his nose broken and you forget his color of his skin and I thought that was the. Because that's what it's supposed to do it's supposed to take you and if you're really an artist it should take you into another world where race size does not matter. Bring. Dude. That was a close Sammy Davis Jr 011 I'm heading soul compete for that from the John Dillon show in 1809 and yes it was he was born on this day 925 Sammy Davis Jr amazing. Also on the stay in 95th he won't Bill Bryson The essays travel and science writer was born both his parents were journalists in a small town America and he grew up in a slightly eccentric middle class household join the prosperous and it dealing 950 s. This is him talking to Sue Lawley about childhood fake ations I have picked song after it well actually it was a recommendation from a long time ago I think in 2013 from William in l.a. He slowed her on this is called the man who lives forever her own named himself after the fact that him and his doctor used to camp like her own so Bill Bryson saw him at holidays or this father reminded me a lot of her own so a bit of that load her own with the moneyless rather. Demon going out on pics on vacation he would. And a good deal of the winter sitting down with maps and the AAA guide books to play being the American cars in the air I say partly because he likes all the detail partly because he was always looking to see how much money he could save for lives he liked to be prepared because he was a great cheapskate and then would take us out for 3 weeks every summer we would go and you always got lost almost lost my my father had this remarkable ability to get very close to the entrance to whatever we were looking for I mean if it was in a big amusement park it would always be within sight but he would never actually find the front gate coming out yes I went past this a record airplane making passes you know passes over an unfamiliar airport and we would see it you know for us to be at the right hand side of the car that there it is there it is and then 3 minutes later be at the left hand side of the car it was always you know the but there always be like some great industrial zone standing between us and yet. that happened on this day chosen by the back Pedia Bill Parsons Well this is new music from Boy Scouts it's a great tune called Get well soon but before we do let's have a little clip about Beethoven's piano and whenever you hear me talking throughout the program today you can hear the 7 simply because on this day 913 how does premiere with Beethoven himself conduct in Bates themself conducted in Vienna charity concerts to soldiers wounded in the battle of how. This is a clip from eyewitness in 1969 towards the end of the last century and somewhere this is dozens upon managed to save Beethoven's birthdays from a developer and bought it and a neighboring house which they turned into a shrine and Museum. They're quite the piano overlong it was just a showpiece and not a working musical instrument There is however a story that when the Allies occupied the town in 1045 some strange sounds were heard coming from the house a musical g.i. 66 The reviews are extremely good this is Shante fleet has nothing going on in the show. This is going on there so injuring could fix music some ways this is silly gosh if. You need this I think that's the thing isn't it it's all about patience a waiting game yes yes yes yes keep me secure in the comforting sounds of the older blades for sure by all accounts you're sure to you can explain every weekday afternoon from one is a chaotic mixer for music and Paris What do you watch on Baby see radio should tell the age of the god. Well we have a clip from the back pedia. Now then. Find a computer with all manner of crackles scratches muffled in indistinct sounds when it comes to precious old recordings especially landmarks like the very 1st disc issued by Blue Note melancholy by meat looks limits both the performances on the label turn date to the sheen and I love that Blue Note which has gone on to issue outcomes by giants like Miles Davis John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. And family roots a simple straight take by a man who never truly hit the big time but was never the less a brilliant boogie woogie player the driest solitary piano the churching pace and the mirror to mope melody all make this the musical embodiment of the mother of all hangovers as does the low volume recruiting keep it down to avoid a pounding headache I love the honesty and simplicity of this low tech 939 recording which shows its age like wrinkles on skin with every hiss crackle and pop . And why I'm a telling you this. Because he need to know. What. The in. The room. The of. The it. The in. the 'd or or. The the. The the. Looks Louis was chosen by the Becker Pedia and she's written me a little know it was going to pass this off as my own knowledge but I have to. Tell a lie. Meade looks Luis makes an uncredited appearance and it's a wonderful life he's the piano player in Nick's place when George Bailey gets thrown out of the box. You know I mean don't you got the piano playing really fast boogie woogie thought he just heard a little Christmas a link and try to hold off my Christmas for the new annoys people who feel if he's too previous bumps on a calm Christmas. This is Molly song and he's called this close money Saul was the see if. Food food and food. From.