Happy Birthday, the Boss
Chris Evans celebrates the Boss's 65th birthday, playing a brace of Bruce Springsteen tracks. Plus listeners' desperate claims to the fame of 10 Downing Street in the Top Tenuous.
Little Beth from Bournemouth gets today's fanfare for telling us about her very first ever pop concert, watching The Saturdays on a Monday...
We open the door to our Mystery Guest who knows the all-intriguing facts behind 10 Downing Street; he is the accomplished academic and headmaster of Wellington College, Dr Antony Seldon!
And that leads us on to the Top Tenuous with your desperate claims to the fame of that very palatial political place!
Today's show is dedicated to all bosses who are over 65!
And, today's show is entitled...The Boss, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, was born on this day in 1949.
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ABBA
Thank You For The Music
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Jacqui Abbott & Paul Heaton
When It Was Ours
- (CD Single).
- Virgin EMI Records.
- 001.
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The Banana Splits
The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)
- Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 5: In Living Color (Various Artists).
- TVT Records.
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Bay City Rollers
I Only Wanna Be With You
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Blondie
Call Me
- Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
- EMI.
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Ali Campbell
I Want You
- (CD Single).
- Cooking Vinyl.
- 001.
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Chic
Everybody Dance
- The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
- Columbia.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival
Bad Moon Rising
- Green River.
- Fantasy.
- 1.
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Dexys Midnight Runners
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When you Smile
- Very Best Of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
- Mercury.
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Dr. Feelgood
Milk And Alcohol
- EMI.
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Foreigner
Cold As Ice
- 40.
- Rhino Atlantic.
- 3.
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Samantha Fox
I Only Wanna Be With You
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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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The Killers
Human
- Day & Age.
- Mercury.
- 1.
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Manic Street Preachers
Futurology
- Futurology.
- Columbia.
- 001.
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Dean Martin & Helen O’Connell
How D'Ya Like Your Eggs In The Morning?
- Cool Couples (Various Artists).
- Sanctuary.
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Al Martino
Spanish Eyes
- The Best Album In The World ...Ever!.
- BMG.
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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
I Only Want To Be With You
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Paolo Nutini
10/10
- Sunny Side Up.
- Atlantic.
- 1.
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Gregory Porter
The In Crowd
- Liquid Spirit.
- Decca.
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Shocking Blue
Venus
- Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
- Old Gold.
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Spandau Ballet
This Is The Love
- The Very Best Of Spandau Ballet - The Story.
- Rhino.
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Bruce Springsteen
The River
- Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
- Columbia.
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Bruce Springsteen
Glory Days
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Bruce Springsteen
Hungry Heart
- Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits.
- Columbia.
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Status Quo
Whatever You Want
- (CD Single).
- Polydor.
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Stereophonics
Dakota
- (CD Single).
- V2.
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The Tourists
I Only Want To Be With You
- Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
- Sony Tv/Columbia.
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U2
The Miracle (Of Joey Ramone)
- Songs Of Innocence.
- Island.
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The Yardbirds
For Your Love
- 25 Years Of Rock'n'Roll - 1965 (Various Artists).
- Connoisseur Collection.
- 9.
Pause for Thought
From Rabbi Pete Tobias of the Liberal Synagogue, Elstree:
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A man once tried to impress his rabbi by declaring that he was going to study the special prayerbook used at the High Holydays. That’s the Jewish New Year, which begins tomorrow evening. The rabbi was unimpressed and responded: “The prayer book is exactly the same as it was last year. ÌýÌýYou would do better to study yourself instead!â€
Sigmund Freud, the founding father of psychoanalysis, who died seventy-five years ago today, would probably have applauded this suggestion. The idea that a person should consider their behaviour rather than study ancient words in a prayerbook might well fit with his idea of the benefit of analysis. ÌýIndeed, although he’d been brought up as an observant Jew, he considered religion to be ‘…an illusion’.
He put his faith instead in psychoanalysis, which takes the form of ‘a dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst’.
It could be argued that prayer is also a form of dialogue. American Rabbi Emil G Hirsch, who lived at the same time as Freud, once said that ‘true worship is not a petition to God, it is a sermon to our own selves.’ And Victorian poet George Meredith, wrote: ‘whoever rises from prayer a better person, that person’s prayer has been answered.’ Indeed, the root of the Hebrew word to pray, hitpallel, means to look at oneself.
Those who use the coming holy days – or indeed, take time at any stage to analyse their past behaviour and seek to change, would surely gain approval from the rabbi who directed that man to study himself. Approval might also come from Sigmund Freud, and, perhaps, even from the Almighty who, I think, would rather like human beings to spend a little less time studying prayer books or asking for things, preferring them to devote themselves a little more to analysing andÌý - dare I say? - improving their behaviour.
Happy New Year!
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