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Matt Lucas sits in, with Brian May and Will Young

Matt Lucas sits in for Zoe and chats to Brian May about the remastered reissue of his 1992 album Back To The Light. Plus Will Young performs live from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Maida Vale studios.

It's another Friends Phone In Friday with Matt Lucas.

Legendary Queen guitarist Brian May talks about the remastered reissue of his 1992 solo album Back To The Light. On its release in September 1992, Back to the Light was an unqualified hit. Hitting No 6 in the UK album charts, it produced a brace of singles. Introduced to Queen fans during an emotive performance at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium, in April 1992, 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' reached No 5 in the UK. 'Driven by You' had already peaked at No 6. The anthemic 'Back to the Light' and rollicking 'Resurrection' also charted, while the instrumental 'Last Horizon' would become a staple of both The Brian May Band's solo concerts and May's later live return to Queen.

Will Young performs music from his brand new album, live from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Maida Vale Studios. His new album, Crying on the Bathroom Floor, features cover versions of songs by female artists including Robyn, London Grammar, Lykke Li and Bat For Lashes.

Along with Adam Porter on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Shabnam Younus Jewell on sport, Matt and the team have the best start to your morning. With celeb guests, quizzes, headlines, tunes chosen by listeners and more music than you can shake a glitterball at!

There's also a Pause For Thought from Reverend Richard Coles and listeners on the line as Matt entertains the nation with fun for the family!

2 hours, 59 minutes

Last on

Fri 6 Aug 2021 06:30
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • KC and the Sunshine Band

    That's the Way (I Like It)

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

  • Ed Sheeran

    Bad Habits

    • (CD Single).
    • Asylum Records.

  • Madonna

    True Blue

    • 32 Ones On One Radio 1's 25th Birthday (Various Artists).
    • Connoisseur Collection.

  • Enrique Iglesias

    Bailamos

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.

  • The Darkness

    Friday Night

    • The Darkness - Permission To Land.
    • Atlantic.

  • Chic

    Good Times

    • The Last Days Of Disco (Film Soundtra.
    • Columbia.

  • Starship

    We Built This City

    • Now 1985 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Becky Hill & David Guetta

    Remember

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Frankie Valli

    Grease

    • Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - Ve.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 18.

  • Dua Lipa

    Don't Start Now

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Records.

  • Lighthouse Family

    Lifted

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Whigfield

    Saturday Night

  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

    • Kool & The Gang - The Singles Collect.
    • Phonogram.

  • Kula Shaker

    Hush

    • Kula Shaker - Kollected: The Best Of.
    • Columbia.

  • KSI

    Holiday

    • All Over The Place.
    • BMG Rights Management (US).

  • David Tomlinson & Dick Van Dyke

    Let's Go Fly A Kite

    • Classic Disney Volume 2 (Various Artists).
    • Walt Disney Records.
    • 14.

  • Steps

    Take Me For A Ride

    • What The Future Holds Pt. 2.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • M People

    One Night In Heaven

    • The Best Of M People.
    • BMG.

  • John Parr

    St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

    • Now 1985 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Brian May

    Back To The Light

    • EMI.

  • Ella Henderson

    Ghost

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

  • Elton John

    Philadelphia Freedom

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Will Young

    Crying On The Bathroom Floor (Radio 2 Session, 6 Aug 21)

  • Will Young

    Back To Life (Radio 2 Session, 6 Aug 21)

  • Manfred Mann’s Earth Band

    Blinded By The Light

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Def Leppard

    Animal

    • Def Leppard - Hysteria.
    • Phonogram.

  • Los Bravos

    Black Is Black

    • Rediscover The 60's - With A Little H.
    • Old Gold.

  • DJ Pied Piper & The Masters of Ceremonies

    Do You Really Like It

    • Now That's What I Call Music 49 CD2.
    • NOW.
    • 3.

  • Maisie Peters

    Psycho

    • You Signed Up For This.
    • Gingerbread Man Records.

Pause For Thought

Pause For Thought

Perhaps, like me, your first thought on rising this morning was of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, and St Dominic, founder of theÌý.

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Because thirty years ago today Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web available as a public service on the internet. And eight hundred years ago today St Dominic died on a pile of sacking at a monastery in Bologna. Two very different people, remote in time and space, and yet both transformed the world through innovations in communications technology.Ìý

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Tim Berners-Lee threw a girdle around the earth, connecting us via the internet to each other, to goods and services, to the entire sum of human knowledge, and a trillion dog pictures.

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St Dominic also girdled the earth, inventing a religious order, the Dominicans, which educated the developing cities of the thirteenth century. We must sow the seed, not hoard it, he said; and he as he sowed so he reaped.

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Of course, innovation can go either way.

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On the debit side, the World Wide Web has given us trolling, cancel culture, cybercrime, and Baby Shark.

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And the Dominicans brought us the Spanish Inquisition, the Singing Nun, and the 0758 from Crofton Park to Blackfriars.Ìý

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Innovators bring with them unintended consequences, and we may live to rue the day some bright spark had a brilliant idea. But we must learn to live with this - to love it, even - for it is our salvation.Ìý

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Without innovation we would still probably be in full lockdown. Sarah Gilbert, Kettering’s most garlanded daughter, and her team in Oxford, which brought us the AZ vaccine, have demonstrated eloquently the world-shaping power of science. Some of the reactions to it have demonstrated eloquently the world-warping power of its opposite.

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Get you vicar, you might be thinking, with your fancy evidence-free assertions about the dead living again. But the St Dominics of this world, signed up to that as I am, have created huge benefits for humanity, just as the Tim Berners-Lees have. In the name of both scienceÌýandÌýreligion great and terrible things have been done.

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Because the problem is not the system, not normally; but us, the crooked timber of humanity out of which no straight thing was ever made.

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Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Aug 2021 06:30
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2