Jake Shears chooses his Tracks of My Years
Former Scissor Sister-turned solo mister Jake Shears chooses his Tracks of My Years all this week. Plus, Ten to the Top is back at 10:30 and there's the Record and Album of the Week.
Former member of the Scissor Sisters turned solo star Jake Shears chooses his Tracks of My Years all this week.
Three times BRIT Award winners Scissor Sisters released four albums together, including their self-titled debut (the UK's best-selling album of 2004) and hits include I Don't Feel Like Dancing, Laura and Filthy/Gorgeous.
Jake released his self-titled debut solo album in 2018, and on June 2nd the long-awaited follow up ‘Last Man Dancing’ arrives, which features Kylie Minogue, Big Freedia, Jane Fonda and more. The lead single Too Much Music was released at the beginning of this year, and was one of the songs Jake performed in Radio 2's Piano Room in February.
Away from performing, Jake's been keeping himself busy writing - having written music for Tales of the City, a 2011 stage musical based on Armistead Maupin’s bestselling book series, he's also teamed up with Elton John to write the lyrics for the new musical Tammy Faye.
Jake's also written and performed with Kylie, duetted with Cher, starred in Kinky Boots on Broadway and appeared on The Masked Singer.
And as well as putting on several shows around the launch of his new album, Jake will also be appearing at Brighton Pride and opening for Duran Duran for their UK Tour.
Jake's first two choices come from Oingo Boingo and David Bowie.
Plus Gary's got another edition of Radio 2’s new mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top plus there's the Love Song messages and the Record and Album Of The Week.
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Music Played
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Electric Light Orchestra
Hold On Tight
- Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Ellie Goulding
By The End Of The Night
- Higher Than Heaven.
- Polydor.
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ABBA
When All Is Said And Done
- The Visitors.
- Atlantic.
- 3.
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The Doobie Brothers
What A Fool Believes
- The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
- Columbia/Sony Tv.
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Post Malone
Chemical
- (CD Single).
- Mercury.
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Michael Gray
The Weekend
- (CD Single).
- Eye Industries.
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Stevie Wonder
Do I Do
- Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collec.
- Universal.
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The 1975
Oh Caroline
- Being Funny In A Foreign Language.
- Concord.
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Travis
Sing
- The Invisible Band (Deluxe Edition).
- Concord.
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Whitney Houston
Run To You
- Whitney Houston - Love, Whitney.
- Arista.
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Birdy
Raincatchers
- Portraits.
- Warner Music UK.
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Split Enz
I Got You
- And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
- Debutante.
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Don Henley
The End Of The Innocence
- Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence.
- Geffen.
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RECORD OF THE WEEK
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Lewis Capaldi
Wish You The Best
- Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent.
- Vertigo/Capitol.
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Eternal
I Wanna Be The Only One (feat. BeBe Winans)
- Eternal - Greatest Hits.
- EMI.
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Meghan Trainor
Mother
- (CD Single).
- Epic.
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Bee Gees
You Should Be Dancing
- Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
- Polydor.
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Adele
Set Fire To The Rain
- 21.
- XL.
- 5.
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ALBUM OF THE WEEK
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Katie Melua
Love and Money
- BMG.
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Level 42
Running In The Family
- The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
- Cherry Red Records.
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Mimi Webb
Freezing
- Amelia.
- Epic.
- 6.
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TRACKS OF MY YEARS
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Oingo Boingo
Weird Science
- Single.
- MCA Records.
- 1.
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David Bowie
Boys Keep Swinging
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Ed Sheeran
Eyes Closed
- - (Subtract).
- Atlantic.
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Kid Creole and the Coconuts
Annie I'm Not Your Daddy
- Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
- Columbia.
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- Mon 17 Apr 2023 09:30³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2