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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Awards build-up

Chris builds up to the first ever Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Awards with Fearne Cotton. Plus, the Mystery Guest, the Top Tenuous and Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Thu 11 Dec 2014 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

    It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

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

  • Black Eyed Peas

    I Gotta Feeling

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
    • 4.

  • David Bowie

    Sound And Vision

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • David Bowie

    Let's Dance

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Tracy Chapman

    Talkin' Bout A Revolution

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.

  • Coldplay

    Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 5.

  • Nat King Cole

    The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot

    • That's Christmas (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Neil Diamond

    In Better Days

    • Melody Road.
    • Mercury.

  • Eagles

    Life In The Fast Lane

    • The Best Of Eagles.
    • Asylum.

  • Paloma Faith

    Leave While I'm Not Looking

    • A Perfect Contradiction.
    • RCA.

  • Ella Henderson

    Glow

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony Music.
    • 001.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

    I Love Rock 'n' Roll

    • Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'n' Roll.
    • Blackheart.

  • Tom Jones

    She's A Lady

    • Take A Break (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • Joni Mitchell

    Big Yellow Taxi

    • Joni Mitchell.
    • Reprise.

  • Vaughn Monroe

    Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

    • Dot Records.

  • Nico & Vinz

    In Your Arms

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Dolly Parton

    Jolene

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Gregory Porter

    Liquid Spirit

    • Liquid Spirit.
    • Blue Note.
    • 001.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Purple Rain

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Start Me Up

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.
    • 7.

  • Emeli Sandé

    My Kind Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Bruce Springsteen

    Glory Days

  • Take That

    Pray

    • Take That - Greatest Hits.
    • RCA.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From comedian & writer Paul Kerensa:

Last night, my local pub housed me and over a hundred others for a celebration of carols and comedy.  We do this every December: some stand-up, then Hark The Herald, another comedian, then Silent Night, and as ever last night was far from silent. Beer and joy overflowed, as punters tried to reach both the bar and the high notes.

It may sound odd, but carols in pubs are nothing new. If you’re not lucky enough to be able to hear or watch the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Awards tonight, and if you’re in a Yorkshire or Derbyshire pub, you might witness one of their famous pub sings. Some say ‘pub carols’ have a longer history than ‘church carols’, since the Puritans banned church-carolling a few centuries back, for not being Christian enough. After all, the word ‘carol’ actually means ‘dance’... and we all know where that can lead.

Today of course church has taken ownership of carols, and I’ve even been to church carol services with choir-harmonised versions of I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. I’m sure some traditionalists baulk at the idea of Wizzard or Mariah Carey rubbing shoulders with O Come All Ye Faithful. But for me, the rich history of Christmas songs is rich because the Christmas story is greater than the lot of them. Each song is not Christmas, but is a signpost to Christmas, whether it’s The First Nowell or Last Christmas by Wham. When you fling your doors open wide, hostelry or religious building, songs and ideas and life can flow in or out, one to the other. A pub gets God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, a church gets All I Want For Christmas Is You. It’s a fair swap, and it’s all window-dressing for the main event.

So if you’re at a ‘pub sing’ this weekend in Ecclesfield or Glossop, or a comedy & carols show in Windlesham, Winchester or Wantage, may your voice be as full as your glass, and cheers to Christmas!

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