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Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy selects 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 R.E.M. and Depeche Mode. 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.
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Thu 15 Aug 2019 09:30
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Music Played

  • The Doobie Brothers

    Long Train Runnin'

    • The Very Best Of The Doobie Brothers.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Ingrid Michaelson

    Young And In Love

    • Stranger Songs.
    • Cabin 24 Records.

  • Electronic

    Getting Away With It...

    • (CD Single).
    • Factory Records.

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Pandora's Box

    • Omd - Sugar Tax.
    • Virgin.
    • 18.

  • Record of the Week

    • Status Quo

      Liberty Lane

      • Backbone.
      • Ear Music.

  • Kylie Minogue

    Confide In Me

  • Yazz & The Plastic Population

    The Only Way Is Up

    • Wanted (Deluxe Edition).
    • Cherry Pop.
    • 010.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Spirit

    • The Lion King O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.

  • Evanescence

    Bring Me To Life

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • The Real Thing

    Can't Get By Without You

    • Time For Love (Various Artists).
    • Truetrax.

  • Louise

    Lead Me On

    • (CD Single).
    • Lil Lou Records.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Bee Gees

    Spirits (Having Flown)

    • Spirits Having Flown.
    • Polydor.
    • 5.

  • Emeli Sand茅

    Shine

    • Real Life.
    • Virgin.

  • Charlie Puth

    Marvin Gaye (feat. Meghan Trainor)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Andreas Johnson

    Glorious

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Kygo & Whitney Houston

    Higher Love

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA Records.

  • John Denver

    Calypso

    • Greatest Hits Vol 2.
    • RCA.

  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Indestructible

    • Miracle Pill.
    • Warner Music.

  • Album of the Week

    • 尝脡翱狈

      Come 成人快手 To Me

      • 尝脡翱狈.
      • 尝脡翱狈 Recordings.

  • Blue

    One Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Innocent.

  • Twinnie

    Social Babies

    • Hollywood Gypsy.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • Eddie Rabbitt

    Every Which Way But Loose

    • I Love Country - Hits of the 70s.
    • Priority.
    • 5.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • Depeche Mode

      New Life

      • The Best Of.
      • Mute.

    • R.E.M.

      It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

      • R.E.M. Singles Collected.
      • Chrysalis.

  • Jeremy Loops

    Gold

    • Critical As Water.
    • Loops Music.

  • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

    The Tears Of A Clown

    • Motown: The Ultimate Hits Collection (Various Artists).
    • Motown.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Aug 2019 09:30
    成人快手 Radio 2