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  • 4 Non Blondes

    What's Up?

  • Lily Allen

    Smile

    • (CD Single).
    • Regal.

  • The Beatles

    Hey Jude

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Anything Goes

    • Cheek To Cheek.
    • Interscope.

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    Anything Goes

    • Cheek To Cheek.
    • Interscope.

  • Bon Jovi

    Lay Your Hands On Me

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

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Deacon Blue

    A New House

    • (CD Single).
    • Medium Wave.
    • 1.

  • Del Amitri

    Roll To Me

    • Twisted.
    • A&M.
    • 007.

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Turn To Stone

    • Light Years - The Very Best Of ELO.
    • Epic.

  • George Ezra

    Blame It On Me

    • Wanted On Voyage.
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

    The Onion Song

    • Soul (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Hue and Cry

    Labour Of Love

    • Now 24 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Chrissie Hynde

    Down The Wrong Way

    • Stockholm.
    • Caroline.

  • Carole King

    It Might As Well Rain Until September

    • Heartbeat - Forever Yours.
    • Sony.

  • The Kinks

    You Really Got Me

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • Lenny Kravitz

    The Chamber

    • Strut.
    • Roxie Records.

  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Sweet Â鶹ԼÅÄ Alabama

    • The All Time Greatest Rock Songs ....
    • Columbia.

  • The Mock Turtles

    Can You Dig It?

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Paolo Nutini

    10/10

    • Sunny Side Up.
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Freda Payne

    Band Of Gold

    • Heartbeat: Love Me Tender (Various).
    • Global Television.

  • Pilot

    Magic

    • 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll Vol.2 (1974).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Prince

    1999

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Propaganda

    Duel

    • A Secret Wish - Propaganda.
    • ZTT.
    • 12.

  • Roxette

    Joyride

  • Ed Sheeran

    Sing

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.
    • 001.

  • Edwin Starr

    Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)

    • Motown - The Hits Collection Vol.2.
    • Motown.

  • The Style Council

    Shout To The Top

    • Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
    • Polydor.

  • T. Rex

    I Love to Boogie

    • T. Rex - The Singles As & Bs.
    • Repertoire.

  • B.J. Thomas

    Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

    • The Love Songs Of Burt Bacharach.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Bobby Vee

    Take Good Care Of My Baby

    • The Best Of Bobby Vee.
    • Liberty.

Pause for Thought

From Father Christopher Jamison, Benedictine Monk:

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Recently I was working with a group of young people in their twenties who were on retreat. A retreat is when people go somewhere quiet, switch off their phones and engage in dialogue about what matters most in their lives. This group was old enough to have done the student bit and they were now asking themselves the age-old question: ‘what do we really want out of life?’ To want something means to want to possess it, whether that’s a car or just a cup of tea. But these young people want more than just to possess things. They noticed that there’s another kind of desire that goes deeper than wanting. They talked about their deepest longings for love, for goodness and for God. They are ambitious for what St Paul called ‘the higher gifts,’ namely, faith, hope and love. As one said, this ambition needs to be more than daydreaming it has to be worked at. Another asked ‘but how can I be the best without becoming selfish?’

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These young people had hit upon something important.Ìý Longing for something is not about possession. It’s meaning is found in another word that derives from it, be-longing. To belong is to be loved. The challenge is to make sure that pursuing wants doesn’t suffocate these deep longings. I believe wisdom is balancing my wants and my longings, but few of us get that balance right. So I find it a salutary exercise at the end of the day to review how that day’s balance went, asking God to give me the grace to want less and to love more.Ìý As the student said – to be more than a daydream, it has to be worked at…

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