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Lighthouse Family perform live

Lighthouse Family, who have sold over 10 million records, perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. The actor Stephen Tompkinson picks his favourite songs in Tracks of My Years.

Lighthouse Family, one of the most successful bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. They're back with a brand new studio album, Blue Sky In Your Head, after a huge gap of 18 years. As well as brand new music and the new single My Salvation, the album also includes Essentials, which are all the bands classic songs remastered for the very first time to celebrate their 25-year recording history. Tunde Baiyewu and Paul Tucker formed Lighthouse Family after meeting at Newcastle University in the early 1990s. Their 1995 debut album 鈥極cean Drive鈥� was a slow-burning success, going six times platinum while staying in the album charts for almost three years. 鈥楲ifted鈥� became one the defining songs of the era, a pop-soul classic that was inescapable on radio. The 1997 follow-up, 鈥楶ostcards From Heaven鈥�, featured three Top Ten singles 鈥� 鈥楻aincloud鈥�, 鈥楬igh鈥� and 鈥楲ost in Space鈥� 鈥� and also went six-times platinum, charting across Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Their third album, 鈥榃hatever Gets You Through The Day鈥� (2001) produced another Top Ten single in the shape of 鈥�(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free/One鈥�, but by this time the band were at breaking point, their friendship burnt out after years on the road living in each others鈥� pockets. And both of them were heartbroken by grief. Paul鈥檚 father had died, and he sought solace in the rock鈥檔鈥檙oll lifestyle. While Tunde had lost his mother, a situation complicated by the fact that his stepfather, Olusegun Obasanjo, was at the time was the President of Nigeria.

Stephen Tompkinson, the actor who has starred in ITV鈥檚 Torvill & Dean, 成人快手鈥檚 The Split, and seven series of Wild at Heart picks the Tracks of My Years with songs from Booker T & The MG's and The Jam.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Tue 7 May 2019 09:30
成人快手 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Madonna

    Medellin (feat. Maluma)

    • Madame X.
    • Interscope.

  • Propaganda

    Duel

    • A Secret Wish - Propaganda.
    • ZTT.
    • 12.

  • Train

    Play That Song

    • A Girl A Bottle A Boat.
    • Columbia.

  • Lionel Richie

    All Night Long (All Night)

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Europa

    All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Ike & Tina Turner

    River Deep - Mountain High

    • The Best Of The Rock'n'Roll Years Vo.
    • 成人快手.

  • Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson

    The Best Things In Life Are Free

    • (CD Single).
    • DEF JAM.

  • Record of the Week

    • Taylor Swift

      ME! (feat. Brendon Urie)

      • (CD Single).
      • Republic Records.

  • The Cardigans

    Lovefool

    • The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
    • Columbia/Sony Tv.

  • Jim Croce

    I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song

    • The Gold Album (Various Artists).
    • The Hit Label Ltd.

  • Lauren Daigle

    You Say

    • Look Up Child.
    • Centricity Music.

  • Glenn Frey

    The Heat Is On

    • Above The Clouds: The Very Best Of.
    • Universal.

  • America

    A Horse With No Name

    • America's Greatest Hits - History.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Morrissey

    Wedding Bell Blues

    • California Son.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • WALK THE MOON

    Work This Body

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Do I Do

    • Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
    • Universal.

  • Radio 2's Piano Room

    • Lighthouse Family

      High (Radio 2 Session, 7 May 2019)

      • Simply The Best Radio Hits (Various).

    • Lighthouse Family

      My Salvation (Radio 2 Session, 7 May 2019)

      • Blue Sky In Your Head.

  • All Saints

    Pure Shores

  • Radio 2's Piano Room

    • Lighthouse Family

      Your Song (Radio 2 Session, 7 May 2019)

  • Album of the Week

    • Vampire Weekend

      Harmony Hall

      • Father Of The Bride.
      • Columbia.

  • Tracks Of My Years

    • Booker T. & The M.G.'s

      Soul Limbo

      • Cafe Latino (Various Artists).
      • Telstar.

    • The Jam

      Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

      • Into The Eighties - Various Artists.
      • Global Television.

  • Westlife

    Better Man

    • Spectrum.
    • EMI.

  • Gloria Gaynor

    Never Can Say Goodbye

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1974 (Various).
    • Premier.

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 May 2019 09:30
    成人快手 Radio 2