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Wed 4 Jun 2014 06:30
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Music Played

  • Bryan Adams

    Everything I Do (I Do It For You)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    Snap Out Of It

    • (CD Single).
    • Domino.
    • 001.

  • Louis Armstrong

    What A Wonderful World

    • This Is My Song - Love Songs Of The 6.
    • Old Gold.

  • Badfinger

    Come & Get It

    • Magic Christian Music By Badfinger.
    • Apple.

  • Jon Bon Jovi

    Blaze Of Glory

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 1.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Edge Of Something

    • Momentum.
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Fairground Attraction

    Perfect

    • The First Of A Million Kisses (Expanded Edition).
    • Cherry Red Records.
    • 002.

  • Bob Hope & Shirley Ross

    Thanks For The Memory

  • Chrissie Hynde

    You Or No One

    • (CD Single).
    • Caroline.
    • 001.

  • Michael Jackson

    Love Never Felt So Good (feat. Justin Timberlake) (feat. Justin Timberlake)

    • Xscape.
    • Sony Music.

  • Jimmy James & the Vagabonds

    Now Is The Time

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

  • AntΓ΄nio Carlos Jobim

    The Girl from Ipanema

    Singer: Astrud Gilberto. Performer: JoΓ£o Gilberto. Performer: AntΓ΄nio Carlos Jobim. Performer: Stan Getz. Performer: Tommy Williams.
    • It's Cool (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    California

    • Lenny Kravitz - Baptism.
    • Parlophone.

  • Lonestar

    Amazed

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Madonna

    Vogue

    • Finally Enough Love (Deluxe Edition).
    • Rhino.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Autumnsong

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 14.

  • Dolly Parton

    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

    • Blue Smoke - The Best Of.
    • Sony Music.

  • The Pierces

    Kings

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

  • Gregory Porter

    No Love Dying

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Pulp

    Mis-Shapes

  • Cliff Richard

    Wired For Sound

    • Cliff Richard - Private Collection.
    • EMI.

  • S Club

    Reach

    • Huge Hits 2000 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Searchers

    Sweets For My Sweet

    • The Searchers.
    • MFP.

  • Shocking Blue

    Venus

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.

  • Carly Simon

    Why

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

  • Simply Red

    The Right Thing

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Sister Sledge

    Lost In Music

    • Disco Inferno (Various Artists).
    • East West.
    • 9.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Born In The USA

    • Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA.
    • CBS.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Nick Baines, the Bishop-elect of Leeds for the Diocese of West Yorkshire & the Dales:

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If truth be told, I'm a bit on the tired side this morning. Last night I was presenting awards for excellence in religious broadcasting and my head is full of great stories. We had some brilliant examples of radio and telly that got under the skin of how people live - and why they live the way they do. After all, religion is about life, not a niche for weirdos.

And perhaps that's why when we get to anniversaries of momentous events, some sort of religious celebration stands at the heart of the remembering. This week is particularly poignant as it ends on the seventieth anniversary of D-Day - a day of triumph, but a day of blood.

But, this week also sees a musical anniversary. Today is the thirtieth birthday of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA. I can't believe it is thirty years since the Boss attacked my ears and got me hooked on music that gave words to memories and took seriously the importance of place for human beings. We need to know where we belong - that we belong somewhere.

I wasn't born in the USA - surprisingly. I was born in Liverpool when the Beatles were getting together and Merseybeat ruled the airwaves. I know where my cultural roots are and they partly tell me who I am. And what Springsteen did was to open up to everyone - wherever they come from - the need to remember. As a rabbi once pointed out, when a generation dies out, memory becomes history - and when that happens - inevitably - history becomes a commodity over which people fight.

The point is we need to know who we are. Way back in the Old Testament the people had to divide the year into rituals that compelled them to remember where they had come from - that when they prospered, they recalled that once they were slaves and had nothing. This was supposed to root within their consciousness a sense of humility and generosity that shaped their politics and economics as well as their culture.

Anyway, Bruce Springsteen isn't that old. But, Born in the USA invited us to do the same task: to remember who we are and that all of us were born somewhere.

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