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Don McLean and Martin Lewis

Don McLean calls Chris from LA to talk about his hit song American Pie and his new album. Plus Martin Lewis shares his financial tips to beat the bills in 2018.

Don McLean calls Chris from LA to tell us why his hit song American Pie was recorded in two parts, plus he chats about his new album, Botanical Gardens. Martin Lewis tells us why now is the time to clear out the clutter and take stock for 2018. There's a mascara warning with 6 year old listener Ellie-Eve, who tells what happened when the nation heard she was saving up for a brand new piano. Hacker T Dog and former England player Alex Scott join Vassos in the sports locker to talk about the Premier League's super movers initiative. Plus, Father Brian D'Arcy joins us live from Crossgar, Co. Down to share with us his Pause For Thought.

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 22 Jan 2018 06:30
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Music Played

  • Elton John

    I'm Still Standing

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Portugal. The Man

    Feel It Still

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • T. Rex

    Get It On

    • Million Sellers Vol.19 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Straight Ahead

    • In The Heart.
    • BBR.
    • 006.

  • P!nk

    What About Us

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • ABBA

    Mamma Mia

    • Abba Gold (40th Anniversary Edition).
    • Polar.
    • 004.

  • SZA & Calvin Harris

    The Weekend (Funk Wav Remix)

    • (CD Single).
    • Top Dawg Entertainment/RCA Records.
    • 1.

  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

    Boom! Shake The Room

    • Code Red.
    • Jive.

  • Little Richard

    Tutti Frutti

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Simple Minds

    Magic

  • Camila Cabello

    Havana (feat. Young Thug)

    • (CD Single).
    • Syco Music.

  • Stereophonics

    Have a Nice Day

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Gnarls Barkley

    Crazy

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Perry Como

    Papa Loves Mambo

    • The Best Of Cult Fiction (Various).
    • Virgin.

  • Naughty Boy & Joe Jonas

    One Chance To Dance

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • LunchMoney Lewis

    Bills

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 001.

  • The Corrs

    Old Town

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Edwin Starr

    H.A.P.P.Y. Radio

    • Edwin Starr: The Essential Collection.
    • Spectrum.

  • Free

    All Right Now

    • Back To The 70's (CD1) (Various).
    • EMI.
    • 15.

  • Don McLean

    American Pie

    • Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Craig David

    I Know You (feat. Bastille)

    • (CD Single).
    • Insanity Records.

  • The Cult

    She Sells Sanctuary

    • The Cult - Pure Cult: The Singles.
    • Beggars Banquet.

  • Fleetwood Mac

    The Chain

    • 50 Years - Don't Stop.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 010.

  • Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble

    This Is Me

    • The Greatest Showman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
    • Atlantic.
    • 7.

  • The Rolling Stones

    You Can't Always Get What You Want

    • The Rolling Stones - Forty Licks.
    • Abkco.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought
From Passionist priest Father Brian D’Arcy:
I’ve always believed that if you can change the way you look at things, the things you look at, change.

This week I sat down, to write a simple PFT. The first draft was okay. So I saved it and went away to visit the sick before completing the re-write. Except that when I came back I could not find it on the computer. I spent a frustrating half hour trying everything I knew, without success.

So I just left it there.

I told myself that if I really believe what I say, I would re-write it quicker than I’d find it. That’s the way I look at things.

And that’s why I’m working on my personal discipline this year. After Christmas I realised I was stuck in a rut and, sadly, the only difference between a rut and a grave is depth. Β I decided to pull myself out of the rut and freshen up my life.

Discipline is vital in my job because there is an obvious link between discipline and Disciple. The Bible says: β€œTo be my disciple, pray often and always.” (1Peter 4:7)

Success belongs to the competent, not the well-meaning. The only way to move forward in life is to get off the fence and live with enthusiasm.

Discipline is the ability to do what it takes to reach your goal. Rather than impede your freedom, discipline actually enhances it.

If you take a train off its tracks it will be free to go anywhere, but without the tracks it will go nowhere. If you take a steering wheel out of a car nobody is in control it but because nobody controls it, it’s useless.

Discipline also helps me cope with stress, remembering that a life that burns brightly could just as easily burn out. We learn when to work hard and when to rest – both are vitally important.

Henry Ford believed that when his workers told him he was attempting the impossible, it made him try even harder.

β€œIf they told me β€˜you can’t’ I told myself β€˜I can’. When asked where the T in Model T came from, he answered β€œI just took the T out of can’t.” 

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