Jo Whiley sits in
Alex James the musician, cheese maker and festival organiser picks the Tracks of My Years. Plus Jo has another round of the PopMaster music quiz and daily love song.
Alex James the cheese maker, festival organiser and musician most famous for playing with Blur picks the Tracks of My Years with songs from Spencer Davis Group and New Order. Alex first picked up the bass guitar in 1984 and after meeting Graham Coxon at Goldsmiths College, became the bassist in Blur alongside Dave Rowntree and Damon Albarn. Blur went on to become one of the most successful and influential British bands of recent years. The band鈥檚 eight studio albums all topped the charts in the UK, generating numerous hit singles along the way including Country House, Song 2 and Beetlebum.
Blur鈥檚 2015 return with the critically acclaimed number 1 album The Magic Whip saw the band enjoy the widest international chart success of their career ahead of a sold-out world tour and a triumphant hometown show in London鈥檚 Hyde Park.
Alex James has also worked as a songwriter and producer with artists including Marianne Faithfull, Florence & The Machine, Joe Strummer, KT Tunstall, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Bernard Sumner and Kevin Rowland, as well Stephen Duffy on Me Me Me and Fat Les on the massive 1998 hit Vindaloo.
Alex鈥檚 passion for cheese is well-known and his range of award-winning cheeses includes Blue Monday, Bleu, Concorde and The Universal. He has hosted the food and music festival The Big Feastival on his farm in Oxfordshire every August since 2011 and last year saw the event hit an all-time high with a record breaking crowd of 25,000 people watching bands including Basement Jaxx and Clean Bandit as well as Chefs Raymond Blanc and Pierre Koffman.
Plus Jo has another round of the PopMaster music quiz and daily love song. There's also the record and album of the week. If you want to contact the show email jo.whiley@bbc.co.uk
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Mark Ronson
Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
- 001.
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尝脡翱狈
You And I
- (CD Single).
- BMG.
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Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand
No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
- Barbra Streisand - Duets.
- Columbia.
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Christopher Cross
Ride Like The Wind
- Christopher Cross.
- Warner Bros.
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Spice Girls
Spice Up Your Life
- (CD Single).
- Virgin.
- 11.
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Will Young
All The Songs
- Lexicon.
- Cooking Vinyl.
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Jennifer Lopez
Ain't It Funny
- (CD Single).
- Epic/Sony.
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John Legend
Preach
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Miami Sound Machine
Dr. Beat
- NOW 1984 (Various Artists).
- NOW.
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David Gates
Never Let Her Go
- David Gates & Bread - Essentials.
- Elektra.
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Record of the Week
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Naughty Boy
Undo (feat. Calum Scott)
- (CD Single).
- Virgin Records.
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Haddaway
What Is Love
- (CD Single).
- Logic Records.
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Wax
Bridge To Your Heart
- American English.
- Lemon Recordings.
- 5.
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Billy Joel
Piano Man
- Piano Man.
- Columbia.
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Louis Tomlinson
Two Of Us
- (CD Single).
- Syco.
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Electric Light Orchestra
Hold On Tight
- Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Alice Merton
Learn To Live
- Mint.
- Paper Plane Records.
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Whitney Houston & Enrique Iglesias
Could I Have This Kiss Forever
- (CD Single).
- Arista.
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Tom Odell
Summer Day
- MoominsValley O.S.T. (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Doves
Kingdom of Rust
- (CD Single).
- Heavenly.
- 1.
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Album of the Week
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Matt Simons
Summer With You
- After The Landslide.
- PIAS.
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Howard Jones
Like To Get To Know You Well
- The Best Of Howard Jones.
- East West Records.
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Westlife
Better Man
- Spectrum.
- EMI.
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Tracks of My Years
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New Order
True Faith '94
- (CD Single).
- London.
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The Spencer Davis Group
Gimme Some Lovin'
- Eight Gigs A Week - The Steve Winwood Years.
- Island.
- 3.
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Emeli Sand茅
Sparrow
- (CD Single).
- Virgin Records.
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Thin Lizzy
Don't Believe A Word
- The Very Best Of.
- Vertigo.
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- Mon 15 Apr 2019 09:30成人快手 Radio 2