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 Sophie Ellis-Bextor and The Bee Gees. 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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Music Played
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ABBA
Summer Night City
- Abba - More Abba Gold.
- Polydor.
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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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The Script
Superheroes
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Elton John
Are You Ready for Love
- Diamonds.
- Virgin EMI Records.
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Sigrid
Don't Feel Like Crying
- (CD Single).
- Island.
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Jonas Brothers
Sucker
- (CD Single).
- Republic Records.
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Junior
Mama Used To Say
- And They Danced The Night Away.
- Debutante.
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Joe Walsh
Life's Been Good
- Driving Rock (Various Artists).
- Global Records & Tapes.
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尝脡翱狈
You And I
- (CD Single).
- BMG.
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Just Jack
Starz In Their Eyes
- (CD Single).
- Mercury.
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Curtis Stigers
You're All That Matters To Me
- Now That's What I Call Music Vol.22.
- Now.
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Will Young
All The Songs
- Lexicon.
- Cooking Vinyl.
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Refugee
- Greatest Hits.
- MCA.
- 7.
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C茅line Dion
It's All Coming Back To Me Now
- (CD Single).
- Epic.
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Emeli Sand茅
Sparrow
- (CD Single).
- Virgin Records.
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Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
- Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
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John Legend
Preach
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Madonna
La Isla Bonita
- The Hits Album 6 (Various Artists).
- BMG.
- 3.
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Andreya Triana
Freedom
- Life In Colour.
- Hi-Tea Records.
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Album of the Week
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Matt Simons
Last To Know
- After The Landslide.
- PIAS.
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Rainbow
Since You Been Gone
- And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
- Debutante.
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Westlife
Better Man
- Spectrum.
- EMI.
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Original Dodger & Romina Johnson
Movin' Too Fast
- Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Tracks of My Years
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Bee Gees
You Win Again
- Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
- Polydor.
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Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor
Murder On The Dancefloor
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Nina Nesbitt
Love Letter
- (CD Single).
- Sony Music.
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Nick Lowe
Cruel To Be Kind
- Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
- 9.
Broadcast
- Wed 17 Apr 2019 09:30成人快手 Radio 2