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Thu 27 Mar 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Aztec Camera & Mick Jones

    Good Morning Britain

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • Badfinger

    Come & Get It

    • Magic Christian Music By Badfinger.
    • Apple.

  • Bananarama & Fun Boy Three

    Really Saying Something

    • Bananarama - Deep Sea Skiving.
    • London.

  • Gary Barlow

    Since I Saw You Last

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 001.

  • Blondie

    Hanging On The Telephone

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Billy Bragg

    A New England

  • Zac Brown Band

    All Alright

    • (CD Single).
    • Southern Ground Artists.
    • 001.

  • Colbie Caillat

    Hold On

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 001.

  • The Cult

    She Sells Sanctuary

    • The Cult - Pure Cult: The Singles.
    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Culture Club

    Church Of The Poison Mind

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Fats Domino

    Ain't That A Shame

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Fats Domino

    Blueberry Hill

    • The Best Of Fats Domino.
    • Liberty.

  • Bob Dylan

    Knockin' On Heaven's Door

    • The Best Of Bob Dylan.
    • Columbia.

  • Elbow

    New York Morning

    • The Take Off & Landing Of Everything.
    • Fiction.
    • 001.

  • The Killers

    Read My Mind

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Trini Lopez

    If I Had A Hammer

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll 1963 (Vol 2).
    • Connoisseur.

  • Meatloaf

    You took the words Right Out of My Mouth

  • Monty Python

    Knights Of The Round Table

  • Ocean Colour Scene

    The Riverboat Song

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.
    • 3.

  • Christina Perri

    Human

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 001.

  • P!nk

    Get The Party Started

    • The Very Best Of All Woman 2003 (Var).
    • BMG.

  • Gregory Porter

    Hey Laura

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

    Islands In The Stream

    • The Greatest Love (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • The Rolling Stones

    She's A Rainbow

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Smash Mouth

    All Star

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • The Smiths

    This Charming Man

    • The Smiths - The Very Best Of.
    • WEA.
    • 2.

  • The Detroit Spinners

    It's A Shame

    • Dancing In The Street (Various Artis.
    • Universal Music Tv.
    • 4.

  • Status Quo

    Down Down

    • Whatever You Want - V.Best Of Status.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Supremes

    Baby Love

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • The Who

    I Can't Explain

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 002.

  • Yello

    The Race

    • Now 13, Part 2 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From writer Abdul-Rehman Malik:

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This week marks the 80th anniversary in the UK of the very first driving test – but here is my confession - I’ve never taken a test.Μύ As a kid, I remember putting up a shiny poster of a Lamborghini Countache in my room, not because I because I was particularly enamoured with it, but I thought it was the right thing for a boy my age to do.

Μύ

I hated how the type of car you had defined the kind of person you were. It took a long time before my parents could afford a car with status. My mother used to drive a battered old 70s Barracuda for years - until the passenger door nearly fell off. I remember the stares of some parents when I was dropped off at school. Stares which seemed to say, "We know the kind of person you are, because we know the kind of people that drive cars like that."

Μύ

So when I hit 16, I did the exact opposite of what all my friends did: I failed to go and sign up for driving lessons.

Μύ

When I finally was shamed into taking lessons, I was abysmal. Fast and furious, I was most certainly not. I turned corners too slowly, was too cautious in the fast lane and changed lanes timidly.

Μύ

I never finished those lessons and so have never had a driving license. I've been lucky to have friends, parents, even students who'd drive me around when I needed. What I missed in driving ability, I'd like to think I made up in charm.

Μύ

"I am in this world like a rider who stops under the shade of the tree for a short time", the Prophet Muhammad once reflected. "After taking rest, he resumes his journey again, leaving the tree behind.” Life is after all transitory.

Μύ

I have no doubt my now 3 year-old son will one day get his license. He is obsessed with all things mechanical and vroom vroom, and rushes to jump behind the wheel of his mother's car pretending to take to the roads. Now I know this might be a risky thing to say, sitting so close to car buff like you Chris, but I do hope he never forgets that purpose of the journey is always more important than the quality of the ride.

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