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Elvis - last studio recording He'll Have To Go.

Gram Parsons - Sleepless Nights? Possibly, more likely Return of The Grievous Angel which was written in the studio in his last sessions...

Bowie, hope there is more but thus far his last studio contribtion is on

Scarlett Johansson - Falling Down

Del amitri's last single

Del Amitri - Just Before You Leave (superb track)

Right only 17 more suggestions and I have my own show....

On October 17th 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd released their fifth studio album, 'Street Survivors'

On October 20th 1977 Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed in Mississippi.

Band leader Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, backing singer Cassie Gaines, roadie Dean Kilpatrick and the two pilots tragically lost their lives.

From the 'Street Survivors' album, a Steve Gaines composition;

'Ain't No Good Life' - Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ 4:36

This is my preferred track, but if you're under time pressure;

'I Know a Little' - Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ 3:26

(Also written by Steve Gaines).

From their last album (from 2005) 'Wild in London'

'Don't touch me there' ... The Tubes

Time for a spot of shock rock ...

#2 aye right Norrie, just in case you do tho i'm gonnae get my obligatory Neil Young suggestion in now!

I Am a Child - Buffalo Springfield

from their "Last Time Around" album which was just that.

Paul from Ayr

OK Mr MacLean, go for it....

From the last album released immediately prior to his death:

Watching the Wheels - John Lennon

there's been a lot of coverage over the last few days, much of it complete tosh. John was a complicated guy who spent most of his life searching for happiness. What I love about this song is that that it reflects a life of contented inner happiness surrounded by his family, an acceptance that it's great just to be yourself,- 'the greatest love of all', as George Benson put it.

The tragedy that followed wasn't that 'we' lost a great rock hero (John allowed that persona to die long before) but that a perfectly happy contented family man was robbed of the happy contented life the he had finally found.

In any event, it's a great track, possibly his greatest because it tells the truth about the real John Lennon and gives a real insight to what is on his mind.No big point is being made, which makes it beautiful. The stand out track in a sometimes quite mediocre post Beatles career.

regardez youse

henri

Tuesday:

What a wonderful world - Eva Cassidy

This was the last song sung live by Eva, performed only six weeks before her death in November 1996 at the age of 33

DC

A challenging theme, so only a few suggestions:
Still the one - Orleans (the founder and creative force, John Hall, left immediately afterwards!)
That'll be the day - Buddy Holly
Mercedes Benz - Janis Joplin

Joe
Linlithgow

#6 One of my all time favourites too Henri, great great song.

I think "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" was one of the last songs recorded by Otis Redding, just before he was killed in a plane crash on 10th December 1967.

Small Faces -- Afterglow of your Love

Last single release before Steve Marriott left to form Humble Pie.

From their first, and last ...

'EMI' ... The Pistols

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GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN -


England 2 Colombia 0 - Kirsty MacColl


Kirsty's final album was Tropical Brainstorm before her tragic accident.

(May she rest in peace.)

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#13 - OOPS! Sorry Billy! Didn't mean to steal your thunder.

(Brainstorm. Thunder. Forget it.)

;o)

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"No, they don't."

The Rights of Man (1791_92) Thomas Paine

;o)

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From The Morning: Nick Drake... the final track from his final album.

The words from which (Now we rise and we are everywhere) are inscribed on the back of his headstone... I know, I need to get out more!

Fair degree of the macabre re this theme idea...

Theme could be a trilogy, Reincarnation??? What'cha say?

Last single 'Cold Wars ~ Rezillos'

First single 'Motorbike Beat ~ Revillos'

DAEVID ALLEN left GONG after recording
YOU NEVER BLOW YR TRIP FOREVER from YOU (RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 3) by GONG
which has turned out to be quite prophetic really.

Johnny Cash's cover of the Nine Inch Nails track "Hurt"
This track is considered by many to be Cash's epitaphas he died only a few months after itwas released.

The last track on the last Roxy Music album (Avalon 1982) is an instrumental called Tara. This could be deamed as ta-ra (goodbye) as Roxy split at the end of that tour and have never released any recordings since.

This is the track I make love to as it it is 1min:32 seconds long, that's 23 seconds to take my clothes off, 34 to put them back on and 35 seconds of unbridled passion in between.

:-)
J.O'B.

#24 Thought you were a Civil Engineer?

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#24

Roxy John,

I now realise my ex was paying me a compliment when she said I made a great egg timer.


Thank you so much!


I can't remember if she liked them hard or runny...

'Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios' ... Adam & The Ants

... from their third + final.

#22 ... FEED THE FISH!

Pink Floyd (ah but which era?)

* Jugband Blues
Syd's last track with the band - very much filled with bitterness

But what would you have for the Beatles? The End/Her Magesty, or Get Back from the EMI rooftop (...and I hope we passed the audition)

#21 ... fair degree of Gong mileage in that one MM

Love the Kirsty MacColl suggestions! Her last single was the lovely "Sun on the Water," released posthumously. This past Sunday would've been Kirsty's 51st birthday, and this weekend there was a tribute concert celebrating her life and music in London, featuring Billy Bragg, Eddi Reader, Alison Moyet, Johnny Marr, and others. It would be great to hear her tonight.

Rich in North Carolina

Didn't Andrew Lloyd Webber write Elvis's last song, how the mighty have fallen.

Obvious titles

I guess it doesn't matter any more, Buddy Holly

Three steps to heaven, Eddie Cochrane.

It's Easy For You was the last track on the Moody Blue album and was recorded during the final sessions but He'll Have To Go was the last track recorded two days later.

So It's Easy For You would count in the theme I guess?

KEVIN AYERS before going Solo 1969-1999 released a Debut Album in 1968 entitled THE SOFT MACHINE. So from that Album can I request for tonight JOY OF A TOY please.

Or

SOLO from LIKE AN OLD FASHIONED WALTZ by SANDY DENNY (Her 3rd Solo Album released 4 years before her untimely death on 21 April 1978)

Or

LONDON BOYS from FUTURISTIC DRAGON by MARC BOLAN (This Album was release 1 year beofre his tragic death in 1977) (He wrote this song about his days as a young boy in London)

Or

MAY YOU NEVER from MAY YOU NEVER by JOHN MARTYN (Died 29 Janauary 2009 and this Album was released 23 March 2009)

#36 January even HAHA

# 26, and your point is?

#28, maybe that's why she is now your ex LOL

J.O'B.

Phil Lynott's 'Old Town', from his last solo album?

#24

RJ, a tip

Dont take your clothes off. Thats an extra 57 secs of UP.

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#40

I do that in the winter but use some of the extra time for some soup in between, keep up my strength.

;-)

#41

Aye we dae.

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#24 Sounds like solitaire's the only game in town for you.

Roy Orbison I Drove All Night
His last big hit.

Also backing Henri's John Lennon, Billy & Senga's two Kirsty MacColls, Mike's Nick Drake and Joe K's Buddy Holly.

Ach boys...just keep 'em on...

"Your Honour, I was inside de closet
Mindin' I and I own business
Your Honour, It was a complete stranger
Causing these disturbances.
Him claims I'm a touching him wife
Which is a wicked and awful lie
Me two hands 'em was occupied
Me shirt in me left
And me pants in me right"

#24

you haven't left yourself much time for the amyl nitrate, RJ - how do you imagine Scotch goes the full three minutes?

I also give massive 2nd to Henri's John Lennon, Billy & Senga's two Kirsty MacColls, Mike's Nick Drake and Joe K's Buddy Holly.

And, of course, to anything by Gong which might well be Gilli's last appearance on Radio.

regardez youse

henri

#47 How did I manage to miss out GONG?

Go on, then. Backing that, too.
(Finally took some time to listen to them. Don't see what the problem is about playing them, apart from the length of some of the tracks)

#46 With you there.

That lot on f***book don't get it, they're all asking for 'the Last Farewell' by Roger Whittaker... could be Gong's big chance..

Mary doll had a great suggestion with Roy Orbison. Made me think that George Harrison was involved in quite a few lasts.

Last Beatles session
Last Beatles performance
Last Roy Orbison recording (w travelling Willburys)
Last Travelling Willburys record
Last George Harrison record

#42 soup in between what? Is that what you mean by "feelin hot"?

#50

I suppose the last 'performance' was 'Get Back' on the roof with the 'audition' comment as mentioned above by the Captain.

I'd happily hear that.

Just returning to John Lennon for a moment, if my memory is correct the track they were working on in the studio the day Mark Chapman decided that it was time to kill the imposter was A Walk On Thin Ice - ironic subject matter and ironic that the last thing he did was produce a Yoko Ono track worth listening to.

I'd happily hear that too.

regardez youse

henri

#49 Just as we were starting to get along.... give the facebookers a break. Especially that old dear.
Look on the bright side - if they keep not "getting it", the bloggers have a higher chance of getting their suggestions played.
BTW - it's "Walking On Thin Ice". I'd happily hear that, too. ;o)

And cheers, norrie!

Ska Instrumentals are fab...

'Bonanza Ska' - Carlos Malcolm
'Napoloeo Solo' - Lyn Taitt
'For A Few Dollars More' - The Upsetters
'Top Secret' - Winston Wright
'The Third Man Theme' - Granville Williams Orchestra
'Guns Of Navarone' - The Skatalites (who are playing in Edinburgh and Glasgow in November...well worth seeing)
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