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Take It To the Bridge

A tenuous celebration of the 73rd anniversary of the opening of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge leads to all manner of brilliant suggestions for bridge tunes.

A tenuous celebration of the 73rd anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco led to all manner of brilliant suggestions for bridge tunes this morning.

Plus in the Rockbook Files we learnt how Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten got his name; there was weather from Jay Wynne, the fella off the telly with the sunny disposition; and some brilliant archive session tracks including a vintage live version of 'Dolphins' by the sublime Tim Buckley.

2 hours

Last on

Thu 27 May 2010 05:00

Music Played

  • The Wonder Stuff

    Size Of A Cow

    • EMI.
  • Crystal Castles

    Celestica

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Fiction.
    • 1.
  • The Rapture

    House Of Jealous Lovers

    • Vertigo.
  • Dead Kennedys

    California Uber Alles

    • Fast.
  • Kele

    Tenderoni

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Wichita/Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Goldfrapp

    Strict Machine

  • The Wedding Present

    Kennedy

    • RCA.
  • Massive Attack

    Girl I Love You

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Rock Steady

    • Warner.
  • Embrace

    All You Good Good People

    • Hut Music.
  • Delphic

    Counterpoint

    • Chimeric.
  • Pavement

    Cut Your Hair

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Domino.
    • 1.
  • The Chiffons

    Up on the Bridge

  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Nature Boy

    • Mute Records.
  • Florence + The Machine

    Dog Days Are Over

  • Ye

    Jesus Walks

    • Roc A-Fella.
  • The Chemical Brothers

    Swoon

    • PARLOPHONE.
  • Tim Buckley

    Dolphins

    • BAND OF JOY.
  • Siouxsie and the Banshees

    Cities In Dust

    • BEST OF SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES.
    • Polydor.
  • 闯贸苍蝉颈

    Animal Arithmetic

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.
  • Squeeze

    Hourglass

Broadcast

  • Thu 27 May 2010 05:00