The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon picks his Tracks of My Years
Neil Hannon, the lead singer and creator of The Divine Comedy picks his favourite songs in the Tracks of My Years. Plus Ken has another round of the PopMaster music quiz.
Neil Hannon, the founder and lead singer of The Divine Comedy picks his Tracks of My Years with songs from U2 and Ben Folds. Neil is considered one of the country鈥檚 most creative songwriters and has recently released his latest album from The Divine Comedy called Office Politics. The album is full of songs about characters and machines, synthesizers and songs about synthesizers. It also has guitars, orchestras, accordions and songs about love and greed. Neil says the songs and characters for the album emerged faster than he could keep track of them.
Neil formed The Divine Comedy in 1989 in Northern Ireland and he is the only consistent band member, and at times has played all the instruments himself. The band鈥檚 break-through album was Casanova in 1996, their fourth album which featured the single 鈥楽omething For The Weekend鈥�. Their highest charting single was 鈥楴ational Express鈥� which reached number 8 in the UK charts in 1999.
In 1998 Neil provided backing vocals with Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys for Robbie Williams鈥� single 鈥楴o Regrets鈥�. The Divine Comedy also supported Robbie Williams on his post-Millennium tour in the same year.
Neil also wrote the theme tunes to the hit TV series Father Ted and The IT Crowd and is currently working on the Father Ted musical with Graham Linehan and Arthur Matthews .
Ken's got another round of the legendary PopMaster music quiz and your dedications with today's love song. There's also the record and album of the week.
If you want to contact the show, just email - ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk
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Westlife
Dynamite
- Spectrum.
- EMI.
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Propaganda
Duel
- A Secret Wish - Propaganda.
- ZTT.
- 12.
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Ne-Yo
Miss Independent
- (CD Single).
- Def Jam.
- 1.
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Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello
厂别帽辞谤颈迟补
- (CD Single).
- Fontana Island Records.
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Queen
A Kind Of Magic
- Queen - Greatest Hits II.
- Parlophone.
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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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Vampire Weekend
Stranger
- Father Of The Bride.
- Columbia.
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Danny Wilson
Mary's Prayer
- Now That's What I Call Music! 12 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Bertie Higgins
Key Largo
- (Single).
- Epic.
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Record of the Week
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Status Quo
Liberty Lane
- Backbone.
- Ear Music.
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DeBarge
Rhythm Of The Night
- Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
- Universal Music Tv.
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The Beatles
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- The White Album.
- Parlophone.
- 7.
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Sam Smith
How Do You Sleep?
- (CD Single).
- Capitol.
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F.R. David
Words
- One Hit Wonder (Various Artists).
- Ganser & Hanke Media.
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Toto
Hold The Line
- Driving Rock (Various Artists).
- Global Records & Tapes.
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Bruce Springsteen
The Wayfarer
- Western Stars.
- Columbia.
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Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble
This Is Me
- The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
- Atlantic.
- 7.
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Keane
Love Too Much
- Cause & Effect.
- Island.
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Album of the Week
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尝脡翱狈
What You Said
- 尝脡翱狈.
- 尝脡翱狈 Recordings.
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补鈥恏补
Foot of the Mountain
- (CD Single).
- Universal.
- 3.
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Jax Jones
Harder (feat. Bebe Rexha)
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Tracks of My Years
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Ben Folds
Still Fighting It
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U2
All I Want Is You
- The Best Of U2: 1980-1990.
- Island.
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Ciara
Thinkin Bout You
- Beauty Marks.
- Beauty Marks Entertainment.
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Jimmy Ruffin
Hold on to My Love
- Soul Boys (Various Artists).
- Knight Records.
Broadcast
- Wed 14 Aug 2019 09:30成人快手 Radio 2