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The Don crosses time, space and genre and spreads Rumours

Don's selections cross time, space and genre, plus he features three tracks from his Crucial Vinyl of the week, Fleetwood Mac's 1977 release Rumours.

As ever, the Don's selections cross time, space and genre, featuring brand new tracks, classics and overlooked gems from the UK, USA, Jamaica and beyond.

He also picks another favourite album for his Crucial Vinyl feature, plays three key tracks, explains how he first came across it and why it means so much to him. This week it's Fleetwood Mac's Rumours, released in 1977, at a time when Don was DJ at Britain's first punk club, the Roxy in London's Covent Garden.

Don says, "This week's Crucial Vinyl is an album that I wouldn't have given the time of day when it was released back in 1977. Fleetwood Mac's 'Rumours' was a million miles from what was going on in my hometown, and you know what that was.
So what changed? Well time, circumstance and, clearly, me. Now, that's not to say that I'd gone soft, but in the mid-eighties, when I found myself touring the west coast of America, it suddenly made more sense. Behind the lush sound and west coast harmonies were tales of recording sessions troubled by relationship breakdowns and excessive drug use. In a weird way, this record was as much a product of its environment as 'Never Mind the Bollocks' was.".

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Sun 10 May 2015 22:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Hiatus Kaiyote

    Breathing Underwater

    • Choose Your Weapon.

  • Sia

    The Fight

  • The Supremes

    Nathan Jones

  • Kiko Bun

    Where I'm From

    • Island Records.

  • The Leisure Society

    Nothing Like This

  • Eddie Kendricks

    Keep On Trucking

    • Tamla Motown.

  • Cash & David

    Pulse

  • Adam Prescott

    Dennis High Special dub

  • Kendrick Lamar

    I

  • 叠脴搁狈厂

    10,000 Emerald Pools

    • Interscope.

  • Crucial Vinyl: Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

    • Fleetwood Mac

      Dreams

      • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
      • Warner Bros.
      • 007.

    • Fleetwood Mac

      You Make Loving Fun

      • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
      • Warner Bros.
      • 011.

    • Fleetwood Mac

      Go Your Own Way

      • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
      • Warner Bros.
      • 006.

  • Mazhar ve Fuat

    Sur Edem Atini

  • Ranking Joe

    Love Jah

  • My Morning Jacket

    Compound Fracture

    • Waterfall.

  • Maria Kannegaard Trio

    Hey Ya

  • Rozi Plain

    Actually

    • Friend.
    • Lost Map Records Ltd.
    • 1.

  • Nat King Cole

    Nature Boy

    • The Nat King Cole Story (Disc 1).
    • Capitol.

  • The Tamlins

    Baltimore

  • Olive

    Blood Red Tears

  • Bernard & Edith

    Poppy

  • Yoshinori Sunahara

    2300 Hawaii

  • Augustus Pablo meets The Upsetter

    Vibrate On

  • Jan Hammer Group

    Don't You Know

  • Cocteau Twins

    Pitch The Baby

  • Lapalux

    We Lost

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Angel

    • Cry Of Love.

  • Sin茅ad O鈥機onnor

    Door Peep

  • Leila Jane

    Carry Me

  • 顿鈥橝苍驳别濒辞

    Africa

Broadcast

  • Sun 10 May 2015 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music