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With Karen O

Mary Anne Hobbs is joined by singer, fashionista and icon Karen O, who talks about love and crushes.

Yeah yeah yeah! A rare and exclusive guest appearance from a modern music great - singer, fashionista, icon, Karen O.

O talks to Mary Anne about love and crushes.
O is the woman who powered the Yeah Yeah Yeahs to fame with her dark tales of New York dating.
Who famously made all of her fans cry, singing "They don't love you like I love you" on the YYY's classic 'Maps'.
Who is consistently voted rock and roll's most attractive woman.
Whose recent debut solo album 'Crush Songs' detail her "ever continuing love crusade".

Expect plenty of intimate conversation and a handpicked selection of the most heartbreaking/exquisite love songs of all-time, from across the genres.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 19 Oct 2014 07:00

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Music Played

  • Donna Summer

    I Feel Love

    • Mercury.
  • Thurston Moore

    The Best Day

    • Matador Records.
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Maps

    • Polydor.
  • Joan Armatrading

    Love and Affection - Radio 2 session 28/09/2011

  • Lamb

    We Fall In Love

    • Strata/Butler Records.
  • MJ Cole

    Sincere

    • TALKIN' LOUD.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Gimmie Shelter

    • ABKCO/London.
  • Jack White

    That Black Bat Liquorice

    • Lazaretto.
    • XL Recordings.
    • 002.
  • Tame Impala

    Feels Like We Only Go Backwards

    • Modular.
  • Zombies

    Time Of The Season

    • Rhino.
  • The Smiths

    The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

    • The Sound Of The Smiths.
    • Rhino.
    • 13.
  • Hookworms

    On Leaving

    • The Hum.
    • Weird World.
    • 001.
  • The Specials

    A Message To You, Rudy (feat. Rico Rodriguez)

  • Flying Lotus

    Cold Dead

    • Warp.
  • Donovan & Jeff Beck Group

    Goo Goo Barabajagal (Love Is Hot)

    • EMI.
  • Kasabian

    Stevie

    • 48:13.
    • Columbia.
    • 004.
  • The Undertones

    Teenage Kicks

    • EMI.
  • Josef K

    Sorry For Laughing

    • Entomology.
    • Domino.
  • Kendrick Lamar

    I

    • Polydor.
  • Friends

    Friend Crush

    • LUCKY NUMBER.
  • Wildbirds & Peacedrums

    Keep Some Hope

    • Rhythm.
    • The Leaf Label.
  • The Kinks

    Waterloo Sunset

    • Essential.
  • Elbow

    Charge

    • The Take Off And Landing Of Everything.
    • Polydor.
    • 001.
  • The Brothers Johnson

    Strawberry Letter 23

    • Eighties Soul Weekender 2 (Various).
    • Pump.
  • Benjamin Booker

    Always Waiting

    • Rough Trade.
  • Nick Cave & Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    Bring It On

    • Mute Records.
  • TV on the Radio

    Happy Idiot

    • Seeds.
    • Virgin EMI.
    • 005.
  • Jessie Ware

    Wildest Moments, 6 Music Session - 7 Aug 2014

  • Blondie

    I'm Always Touched By Your Presence Dear

    • EMI.
  • Alvvays

    Next Of Kin

    • Transgressive.
  • Karen O

    Day Go By

  • 3 Minute Epiphany

    Karen O: How To Write A Love Song

  • The Supremes

    Baby Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • The Barr Brothers

    Love Ain't Enough

    • SLeeping Operator.
    • Secret City Records.
    • 001.
  • Prince Buster

    One Step Beyond

    • Virgin.
  • Tamikrest

    Djanegh Etoumast

    • GLITTERBEAT.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Chain Of Fools

    • Atlantic.
  • Real Estate

    Had To Hear

    • Atlas.
    • Domino.
    • 001.
  • James

    Sound

    • Fontana.
  • Johnny Marr

    Getting Away With It (Live at Maida Vale)

  • Anna Calvi

    Cry

    • One Breath.
    • Domino.
    • 001.
  • Sunriser

    • Mala

      I Wait Part II

      • Deep Medi Musik.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Oct 2014 07:00