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Another chance to hear the Memory Tape of Raphael Doyle, who passed away quietly in his sleep at Teesside Hospice on the 30th March.

Raphael spoke eloquently about his acceptance of his Motor Neurone diagnosis; his friendship with 6 Music鈥檚 Tom Robinson; and his final (crowd funded) album Never Closer.

Last February, Raphael wrote: 鈥淎bout a year ago I began to find that I couldn't grip my plectrum. All my life since my early teens, picking up my guitar and a plectrum and singing songs has been an integral part of who and what I am. Now, with what鈥檚 turned out to be the onset of Motor Neurone Disease, the plectrums lie about the place on mantelpieces and dressing tables, where ever I last put them down, sucking their teeth at me, and the guitar still leans against the wall, unplayed.

Over the years my kids, from infant to adult, have seen me picking up a guitar, singing a song, and there are some songs in particular that they know and would ask for. When I first thought about making a mix tape for them I thought it would be those songs. And some of them are here.

But as I got into it I realised that the pivotal moments of my life and my musical journey were not necessarily the ones they knew. The ones I've chosen instead are the ones that show something of the reason why music is so important to me - tracks that have affected me, triggered something, expanded horizons, wakened me up to the way that music can show some of the deep-moving, hidden currents under the surface of life. But also, just some tracks that I've loved. That's what I wanted to share with them.鈥�

THEM - It鈥檚 All Over Now Baby Blue
Nick Cave - God Is In The House (Later With Jools Vol 2)
Nina Simone - Gin House Blues (Forbidden Fruit/My Baby Just Cares For Me)
Small Faces - Tin Soldier
Kinks - Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Tom Robinson - Blood Brother (Live Solo In Ireland)
The Band - King Harvest
Robert Johnson - Come On In My Kitchen
Paul Simon - I Do It For Your Love
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Rolling Stones - Lets Spend The Night Together
Neil Young - The Needle And The Damage Done
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Slides - Dead Letter Box
Dylan - Hey Mr Tambourine Man
Cafe Society - Sailor
Kate Tempest - Theme From Becky (Everybody Down)
Radiohead - House Of Cards (In Rainbows)
David Bowie - 5 Years (Ziggy Stardust)
Seamus Heaney - reading When All The Others Were Away At Mass
Raphael Doyle - Touch Of Our Hands

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