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Paul Weller World Exclusive and Easter Films

Chris has the world exclusive first play of Paul Weller's new single Long Long Road and we hear from movie buff James King about the most jaw-dropping films to watch this Easter.

Chris speaks to the 'Modfather' Paul Weller and has the World Exclusive first play of his new single Long Long Road, taken from his thirteenth studio album A Kind of Revolution. We hear from movie buff James King about the most jaw dropping films to watch this Easter including Boss Baby, Ghost in the Shell, Fate of the Furious and Fantastic Beasts. Chris asks listeners what they're doing on behalf of everyone else doing the same thing! Vassos is joined in the Sports Locker by GB's top Cox Henry Fieldman and the Pause For Thought comes from Methodist Minister Leslie Griffiths.

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Thu 30 Mar 2017 06:30
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Music Played

  • The Clash

    Rock The Casbah

    • The Singles.
    • Epic.

  • Katy Perry

    Chained To The Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley)

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • Madonna

    Crazy For You

    • Celebration.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 7.

  • Jodie Abacus

    She's In Love With The Weekend

    • (CD Single).
    • Household.
    • 001.

  • Curtis Mayfield

    Move On Up

    • The Old Skool Reunion (Various Artis.
    • Global Television.

  • Rick Astley

    Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.
    • 006.

  • Rick Astley

    Never Gonna Give You Up

    • Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Someb.
    • RCA.

  • The Beatles

    With A Little Help From My Friends

    • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
    • Parlophone.
    • 2.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Remember Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.

  • ±á³Ü»å²õ´Ç²Ô–F´Ç°ù»å

    Pick Up The Pieces

    • 25 Years Of Rock 'N' Roll Volume 2: 1973.
    • Mercury Records Limited.
    • 16.

  • The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

    Something Just Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • The Osmonds

    Love Me For A Reason

    • The Very Best Of The Osmonds.
    • Polydor.

  • Bee Gees

    How Deep Is Your Love

    • Bee Gees - Their Greatest Hits.
    • Polydor.

  • The Jacksons

    Blame It On The Boogie

    • Disco Fever (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • The Monkees

    Daydream Believer

    • The Definitive Monkees.
    • Warner Strategic Marketing.
    • 5.

  • The Four Seasons

    Big Girls Don't Cry

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 7.

  • The Smiths

    William, It Was Really Nothing

    • The Very Best Of The Smiths.
    • WEA.
    • 6.

  • Depeche Mode

    Enjoy the Silence

  • Ed Sheeran

    Galway Girl

    • ÷ Divide.
    • Atlantic.

  • Pilot

    Magic

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

  • Take That

    Never Forget

    • Now That's What I Call Music 1995 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Take That

    It Only Takes A Minute

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Paul Weller

    Long Long Road

    • (CD Single).
    • Parlophone.

  • The Jam

    Going Underground

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

  • Sea Power

    Keep On Trying (Sechs Freunde)

    • (CD Single).
    • Golden Chariot Records.
    • 001.

  • David Bowie

    Life On Mars?

    • David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
    • EMI.

  • Gary Numan

    Are Friends Electric?

    Performer: Tubeway Army.
    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artists).
    • Telstar.

  • Gavin James

    I Don't Know Why

    • (CD Single).
    • GS Believe.

  • Paul Weller

    Broken Stones

    • Paul Weller - Stanley Road.
    • Go! Discs.

  • Chuck Berry

    Roll Over Beethoven

    • The Best Of Chuck Berry.
    • Music Club.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

From Leslie Griffiths, Methodist Minister:       

The news of Chuck Berry’s death was widely reported but it was far more than a news item for me. It was a Doctor Who moment as I found myself transported back in time, way back to the very threshold of adolescence.

Newspapers and the Pathé news had warned us of a dangerous phenomenon that was about to hit us. Parents, in hushed but urgent tones, told us to be careful. We were about to be savaged, ravaged, swept up in a new cultural hurricane called Rock ‘n Roll. Soon we were shaking, rattling and rolling all over the dance floor, rocking around the clock and singing the blues for all we were worth. Country music, rhythm and blues and even skiffle had morphed into this new style that tsunami-ed us. A corner had been turned and a new day had dawned.

But it was the time immediately before Berry, Steele and Haley that I remember most clearly. Something was in the air. You could almost smell it. It was a bubble waiting to burst, an atmosphere pregnant with the possibility that everything was about to be turned upside down, inside out. It was a cocktail of waiting, hoping and fearing - a cocktail that had us shaking and stirred.

And that waiting for a new day is exactly how I feel every year in the season we Christians call Lent. We’ve been fixing our attention on a life that was coming under increasing pressure. Soon, we’ll be thinking of the cruelty, the beating, the scoffing, the pain and the agony Jesus endured. But, we know that all this suffering and misery isn’t the end of a story. These are the birthpangs of a new beginning. Even death is about to be redefined. After Friday with its darkness comes Sunday with its blazing light and its dazzling hope. Our hearts are alive with the sense of new beginnings.

I felt just like that all those years ago. Then it was for the dawn of a new culture. Today it’s for the Sun rising on a new understanding of how the world might be and how humanity might know what it really means to be alive.

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