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Hugh Laurie looks at the blues influence in pop, with music from Tommy Steele, Jilted John, the Shangri-Las and more, including Hugh's own performance of Careless Love.

Actor, comedian and musician Hugh Laurie presents this new series in which he examines the ways in which the blues has influenced all the types of popular music that we listen to today.
Each week he'll be playing a song with his acclaimed Copper Bottom Band and using that as a starting point from which to explore the permutations and permeations of the music that he loves.
This week, Hugh plays and sings "Careless Love", and looks at the blues strain in pop music, somehow managing to link Johnny Ray with the Shangri-Las and Jilted John along the way!

A performance film accompanying the series can be seen on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Red Button service.

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Hugh Laurie is an English actor, comedian, writer, musician and director. He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1985 to 1999.
From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr. Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and six Emmy nominations. He has been listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor ever in a television drama, earning Β£250,000 ($409,000) per episode in House, and for being the most watched leading man on television.
Acting aside, he is an accomplished pianist, leading the Copper Bottom Band in a smorgasbord of traditional jazz and blues which has so far resulted in two critically acclaimed albums and a series of sell-out world tours.
This is his first series for Radio 2.

57 minutes

Last on

Mon 9 Feb 2015 22:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Hugh Laurie

    CARELESS LOVE

  • Johnny Ray

    CRY

    • Popfile the Originals: Volume 2.
    • Own Label.
    • GBSBU0601000.

  • Tommy Steele

    SINGING THE BLUES

    • BRITISH BEAT.
    • EMI.
    • 7 89220-2.

  • The Animals

    HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

    • Complete Animals.
    • COLUMBIA.
    • 79-4613-2.

  • The Beach Boys

    DON'T WORRY BABY

    • GOOD VIBRATIONS.
    • CAPITOL.
    • CDP-7812952.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    Need Your Love So Bad

    • In The Mood For The Blues.
    • Universal.
    • 982- 0180.

  • The Shangri‐Las

    PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

    • MYRMIDONS OF MELODRAMA.
    • RPM.
    • RPM-136.

  • The Three Degrees

    When Will I See You Again

    • THE THREE DEGREES THE BEST OF.
    • CONNOISSEUR COLLECTION.
    • VSOP CD-149.

  • Jilted John

    JILTED JOHN

    • KNUCKLE SANDWICH.
    • EMI INTERNATIONAL.
    • EMIV-18.

  • The Smiths

    Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

    • Hatful of Hollow.
    • Rough Trade Records.
    • rough-cd76.

  • Happy Mondays

    Step On

    • PILLS, THRILLS AND BELLYACHES.
    • FACTORY.
    • FACD-320.

  • Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

    The Message

    • Best of Message from Beat Street.
    • Rhino Records.
    • na-na.

  • Prince

    SIGN OF THE TIMES

    • SIGN OF THE TIMES.
    • PAISLEY PARK.
    • 925-577-2.

  • Take That

    Back For Good

    • NOBODY ELSE.
    • RCA.
    • 74321-27909 2.

  • Lana Del Rey

    Born To Die

Broadcasts

  • Mon 21 Oct 2013 22:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2
  • Mon 9 Feb 2015 22:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2