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Maximum Music Monday

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball and the team. Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on with The Disco Ball and Pick Your Own Playlist!

Wake up and embrace the day with Zoe Ball! Between 8 am and 9 am Zoe keeps the tunes rolling on Maximum Music Monday.

On this day 35 years ago Live Aid was underway! Zoe speaks to listener Chrys about what it was like being backstage at the iconic charity concert.

Plus we hear from you, the lovely Radio 2 listeners in the National Noticeboard.

Along with Tina Daheley on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, she and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners, and more music that you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a daily Pause For Thought from Remana Aly and listeners on the line, as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

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Mon 13 Jul 2020 06:30
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Electric Light Orchestra

    Shine A Little Love

    • ELO's Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • Epic.

  • Ella Henderson

    Take Care Of You

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • The Pointer Sisters

    Jump (For My Love)

    • The Best Of The Pointer Sisters.
    • RCA.

  • Clean Bandit

    Symphony (feat. Zara Larsson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Deacon Blue

    Real Gone Kid

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

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

    • Rule The World: The Greatest Hits.
    • Virgin EMI Records.
    • 4.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • McFly

    All About You

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.

  • Queen

    Radio Gaga (Live Aid 1985)

  • Avril Lavigne

    Complicated

    • Avril Lavigne - Let Go.
    • Arista.

  • Eurythmics

    There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)

    • The Female Touch 2 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Jess Glynne

    Hold My Hand

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Janet Jackson

    What Have You Done For Me Lately

    • Janet Jackson - Design Of A Decade.
    • A&M.
    • 6.

  • Barry White

    You See The Trouble With Me

    • Barry White - The Collection.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • Loleatta Holloway

    Love Sensation

    • The Best Disco Album In The World...Ever!.
    • Virgin.
    • 3.

  • Oliver Cheatham

    Get Down Saturday Night

    • The Best Summer Album 2003 (Various).
    • Warner Strategic Marketi.

  • Harry Styles

    Watermelon Sugar

    • Fine Line.
    • Columbia.

  • T. Rex

    Metal Guru

    • Can The Glam! (Various Artists).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Prefab Sprout

    Cars And Girls

    • Top Gear 2 - Various Artists.
    • Columbia.

  • The Beat

    Tears Of A Clown

    • Greatest Hits Of The 70's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • The Specials

    Gangsters

  • The Undertones

    My Perfect Cousin

    • The Undertones - Teenage Kicks.
    • Castle.

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    Torn

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artist.
    • Elektra.

  • Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande

    Rain On Me (Purple Disco Machine Remix)

    Remix Artist: Purple Disco Machine.
    • Chromatica.
    • Interscope Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought
From Remona Aly, Freelance journalist and editor:听
Zoe, it was twelve summers ago that I found myself standing in front of George Clooney鈥檚 front door about to ring the bell. I was on holiday in Lake Como with a friend, and working for a magazine at the time. Top of my editor鈥檚 wish-list was an interview with Mr Clooney, so my friend urged me to carpe diem, 鈥淭his is your only chance, Remona. Go get him!鈥� After two hours of psyching myself up and three rickety buses later, we reached a sleepy village lazing in the afternoon sun, and found a little newsagent to ask for further intelligence. 鈥淏on journo!鈥澨�
I breezed, with the only Italian I knew - apart from gelato 鈥� 鈥淒ove George Clooney?鈥� The shopkeeper launched into Italian, being Italian, and after laughing at my confused expression, gently took me outside his shop and pointed out George鈥檚 holiday home. 鈥淕razie mille!鈥� I smiled as I plucked up courage, walked nervously to the door and rang the bell... Had the housekeeper let me in, it might have been the biggest scoop of my life. Sure, it was a mad idea, but sometimes you鈥檝e just got to go for it, and 鈥� here鈥檚 the important point for me: be prepared for failure.听
The number of times I鈥檝e gone out on a limb and dived are more than I can remember. I鈥檝e tried to launch my career with dream jobs but was always sunk with the news that yet again, my application didn鈥檛 quite make it. I鈥檝e put every effort into what I thought was a lifelong friendship, only to be let down when I really needed them. The medieval Sufi Muslim poet, Shams Tabrizi said, "It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given, but also for all that he has been denied." Being thankful for what hasn鈥檛 come my way is a real challenge, but it鈥檚 carved out who I am now. I鈥檝e learnt to channel the many disappointments in life to build an armour of determination. I鈥檝e let my tears be my teachers, on how to be more resilient to pain and to remember hope may still come. So, I thank my Creator and Mr Clooney for closing some doors to me, so that I might open more promising windows.

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  • Mon 13 Jul 2020 06:30
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2