Gary Davies sits in featuring James Dean Bradfield's Tracks Of My Years
James Dean Bradfield chooses his final Tracks of My Years with music from Echo & The Bunnymen and Simple Minds. Gary has the daily love song plus another round of PopMaster..
James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer songwriter and one-third of the Manic Street Preachers, is choosing the Tracks of My years all week with Gary Davies sitting in for Ken. Last month James released his second solo album entitled 'Even In Exile' based on a collection of songs loosely tracing the story of the life and death of Chilean poet-singer-activist Victor Jara. James set words written specifically for the album by poet and playwright Patrick Jones to music adding: 鈥淚 started each track with just guitar and vocal and built it up from there, this is an album that wasn鈥檛 jammed - it was quite a precise procedure of finding the right architecture for the lyrics. That meant it was never envisaged as an album I was going to take out on the road.鈥� His first solo album 'The Great Western' was released back in July 2006 where the majority of lyrics were written by James and featured a theme of looking to the past in a personal rather than a political light. The title refers to the Great Western Railway and much of the album was written on the train journey between Cardiff, where he lives today, and Paddington.
The final two tracks James has chosen come from Echo & The Bunnymen and Simple Minds. Gary also has the daily love song, record and album of the week plus another round from the legendary music quiz PopMaster. If you'd like to get in touch email Gary.Davies@bbc.co.uk
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Huey Lewis and the News
The Power Of Love
- Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
- Chrysalis.
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Dermot Kennedy
Giants
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- UMGRI Interscope.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Pandora's Box
- Omd - Sugar Tax.
- Virgin.
- 18.
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Rita Ora
Anywhere
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- Atlantic.
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The Pretenders
Maybe Love Is In NYC
- Hate For Sale.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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Londonbeat
I've Been Thinking About You
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- Anxious Records.
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Ricky Martin
Livin' La Vida Loca
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- Columbia.
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Travis
The Only Thing (feat. Susanna Hoffs)
- 10 Songs.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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Kylie Minogue
On A Night Like This
- Light Years.
- Parlophone.
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Richard Marx
Right Here Waiting
- Mixed Emotions III (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Paloma Faith
Better Than This
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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Sherbet
Howzat
- The No.1 70's Rock Album (Various).
- Polygram TV.
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Jim Steinman
Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through
- Rock Classics 2 CD2.
- Sony Music Entertainment.
- 9.
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Melanie C
In And Out Of Love
- (CD Single).
- Red Girl Media.
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The Trammps
Disco Inferno
- NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
- Now.
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BTS
Dynamite
- (CD Single).
- BigHit Entertainment.
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Billy Joel
Leningrad
- Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Volume III.
- Columbia.
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Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor
Crying At The Discotheque
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
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Roachford
Written In My Heart
- Twice In A Lifetime.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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The O鈥橨ays
Love Train
- Shades Of Soul (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Bon Jovi
Do What You Can
- 2020.
- Island.
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Craig David
Rise & Fall (Radio 2 Live at Home 2020)
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TRACKS OF MY YEARS
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Echo & the Bunnymen
The Cutter
- Absolution (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Simple Minds
Speed Your Love To Me
- The Best Of Simple Minds.
- Virgin.
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Steps
What The Future Holds
- What The Future Holds.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
Broadcast
- Fri 18 Sep 2020 09:30大象传媒 Radio 2