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National Album Day

Featuring tracks from your favourite 80s album to celebrate the theme of this year's National Album Day. Plus Toyah Wilcox chooses her favourite vinyl record from the decade.

Featuring tracks from some of your favourite 80s albums. Now in its third year, National Album Day 2020 takes place on Saturday 10th October and celebrates the album format through a series of special events. This year's theme celebrates the eighties, a musically-rich decade that witnessed exciting new genres such as new wave, hip hop, electronica and indie come to the fore and shape our musical heritage to this day. Plus some of the biggest pop records of all time were releases during the 80s.

Toyah Wilcox is one of this year's ambassadors and chooses her favourite vinyl record, Grant counts down the best-selling albums of the whole decade and also plays some of John Lennon's biggest hits of the 1980s on what would have been his 80th birthday.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 9 Oct 2020 18:00

Music Played

  • Simple Minds

    New Gold Dream

  • Prince

    U Got The Look

  • The Jam

    Start

  • Whitney Houston

    Love Will Save The Day

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Domino Dancing

  • Michael Jackson

    Beat It

  • Dire Straits

    Your Latest Trick

  • Peter Gabriel

    Sledgehammer

  • Sade

    Hang On To Your Love

  • The Stone Roses

    She Bangs The Drums

  • Madness

    Bed and Breakfast Man

  • John Lennon

    Nobody Told Me

  • John Lennon

    Watching The Wheels

  • Stevie Wonder

    I Ain't Gonna Stand For It

  • Tears for Fears

    Woman in Chains

  • Heaven 17

    Penthouse And Pavement

  • The Human League

    The Things That Dreams Are Made Of

  • Deacon Blue

    When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)?

  • Madonna

    Dress You Up

  • ABC

    All Of My Heart

  • Christopher Cross

    Sailing

  • Joe Jackson

    Jumpin' Jive

Broadcasts

  • Fri 9 Oct 2020 18:00
  • Fri 9 Oct 2020 19:00