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Special guest: Rick Wakeman

It’s your essential weekly playlist, jam-packed with the very best music of the decade.

Johnnie’s here to guide you though it all, so get ready to rock down during lockdown.

It’s your essential weekly playlist, jam-packed with the best of the decade.

Johnnie’s here to guide you though it all, so get ready to rock down during lockdown.

Music legend Rick Wakeman will be on the phone to tell us how he’s coping with life as a self-confessed grumpy old man during these weird times, and how he’s helped put together ‘70s Rock Down’, an amazing new compilation album that features many of the anthems and classics that you regularly hear on this very show.

Johnnie Jukebox’s selection comes from 1979 with memories of school discos during the Mod Revival, as suggested by Paul Winstanley in Hampshire.

Our look at This Week In Music shines the spotlight on a remarkable lady who turns 81 this week, a U.S. no.1 smash for a former Beatle in 1973, and a trio who’d later conquer the world but were experiencing rather more humble beginnings in 1978, embarking on a Winter tour of the U.K. to promote their recently released debut album.

All that plus more of your excellent song requests, stories, memories and dedications.

Get in touch with the show anytime for our upcoming programmes, including our big Christmas special: walker@bbc.co.uk

1 hour, 55 minutes

Music Played

  • The Trammps

    Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart

    • Single - Buddah BDS 405.
  • Warren Zevon

    Werewolves Of London

    • Excitable Boy.
  • Wings

    Jet

    • Band On The Run.
  • Ringo Starr

    Photograph

    • Ringo.
  • David Essex

    Lamplight

    • Rock On.
  • John Denver

    Leaving On A Jet Plane

    • Rhymes And Reasons.
  • JOHNNIE'S JUKEBOX

    • Secret Affair

      Time For Action

      • Glory Boys.
  • Status Quo

    Rockin' All Over the World

    • Rockin' All Over The World.
  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Nutbush City Limits

    • Single - United Artists UP 33582.
  • James Brown

    Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine

    • Single - Polydor 2001 071.
  • Elton John

    Tiny Dancer

    • Madman Across The Water.
  • Neil Diamond

    Cracklin' Rosie

    • Tap Root Manuscript.
  • Edison Lighthouse

    Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)

    • Single - Bell 1091.
  • The Rolling Stones

    Miss You

    • Some Girls.
  • The Police

    So Lonely

    • Outlandos D'Amour.
  • SPECIAL GUEST: RICK WAKEMAN

    • Rick Wakeman

      Catherine Of Aragon

      • The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.
    • Status Quo

      Down Down

      • On The Level.
    • Bachman–Turner Overdrive

      You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

      • Not Fragile.
  • Marvin Gaye

    Let's Get It On

    • Let's Get It On.
  • Marianne Faithfull

    The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan

    • Broken English.
  • Meat Loaf

    You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth

    • Bat Out Of Hell.
  • LaBelle

    Lady Marmalade

    • Single - Epic EPC 2852.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Nov 2020 15:00