Simon Le Bon
Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon tells Zoe about the Global Citizen Live event plus Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more of your questions.
Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon chats to Zoe about Global Citizen Live鈥檚 star-studded 24-hour event. Global Citizen Live will include two huge concerts in London and Los Angeles, with the line-up in London featuring performances from Duran Duran, Kylie Minogue, M氓neskin, Nile Rodgers and Chic and Rag鈥檔鈥橞one Man, all from a spectacular location. Both events are part of the once-in-a-generation day of unity across six continents, to be broadcast over 24 hours on TV networks around the world.
Plus it鈥檚 The Why Workshop, and Zoe quizzes the QI Elves with more wonders and ponders, including your questions.
Along with Clare Runacres on news, Richie Anderson on travel and Mike Williams on sport, Zoe 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 Sarah Joseph and listeners on the line as Zoe entertains the nation with fun for the family!
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KC and the Sunshine Band
That's the Way (I Like It)
- Disco Fever (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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ABBA
Don't Shut Me Down
- Voyage.
- Polar.
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Kylie Minogue
Spinning Around
- Now 46 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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George Benson
Love Ballad
- George Benson - The Very Best Of.
- Warner E.S.P..
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Junior Senior
Move Your Feet
- Smash Hits Chart Summer 2003.
- EMI/Virgin/Universal Music.
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Billy Joel
Tell Her About It
- Billy Joel - Greatest Hits Vol.2.
- CBS.
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The Jacksons
Can You Feel It
- Fantastic 80's Go For It! - Various.
- Parlophone.
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Sting
If It's Love
- The Bridge.
- Interscope.
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Lady Gaga
Bad Romance
- Now That's What I Call Music 75 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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Womack & Womack
Teardrops
- And They Danced All Night.
- Debutante.
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Pretenders
Talk Of The Town
- The Pretenders - The Singles.
- WEA.
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Edwyn Collins
A Girl Like You
- The All Time Greatest Movie Songs.
- Columbia/Sony Tv.
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Elton John & Dua Lipa
Cold Heart
- (CD Single).
- Virgin/EMI.
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Lily Allen
The Fear
- (CD Single).
- Regal.
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Dolly Parton
Jolene
- Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
- Disky.
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Richard Ashcroft
This Thing Called Life
- Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1.
- BMG Rights Management (UK).
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The Clash
Rock The Casbah
- The Singles.
- Epic.
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The KLF
Justified & Ancient (Stand by The JAMs) (feat. Tammy Wynette)
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- K.L.F. Communications.
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Little Mix
Love (Sweet Love)
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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Jocelyn Brown
Somebody Else's Guy
- Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
- Global Television.
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Doja Cat
Say So
- Hot Pink.
- Kemosabe/Ministry of Sound.
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The Living Daylights
- The Best Of James Bond 30th Anniversa.
- EMI.
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James Blunt
Love Under Pressure
- The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021).
- Atlantic.
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Duran Duran
Anniversary
- Future Past.
- S-Curve Records.
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Snap!
Rhythm Is A Dancer
- Holiday Hits: Non Stop Euro Pop (Var).
- Virgin.
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Jermaine Stewart
We Don't Have To
- Club Classics From The 80's (Various).
- Disky.
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Dario G
Sunchyme
- Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
- Global Television.
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Lipps, Inc.
Funkytown
- And They Danced All Night.
- Debutante.
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Supergrass
Alright
- The Best Pub Jukebox In The World (V).
- Virgin.
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David Guetta, MistaJam & John Newman
If You Really Love Me (How Will I Know)
- (CD Single).
- Parlophone.
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Harry Styles
Treat People With Kindness
- Fine Line.
- Columbia.
Pause For Thought
The guard kindly let me go onto the platform to help my daughter with her luggage. I got her settled and then left the train.聽聽I could see her crying through the window.聽I did a series of silly walks inspired by Monty Python, and Walking Like an Egyptian, a la The Bangles 1986. I pulled聽stupid聽faces, made heart signs with my hands, and blew her kisses. Gradually she began to laugh. We鈥檇 actually dropped her to university the week before 鈥 but she鈥檇 come back home for a wedding, and leaving the second time around was tougher somehow.
It鈥檚 her second year 鈥 but her first year had mainly been spent at home because of Covid. Like thousands of others her lectures had been on her computer, and she鈥檇 incurred debt for student housing she barely used. After such a year, there's still deep uncertainty about what university life will be like this time. None of us really know quite how things will pan out. Covid has made even the everyday seem strange, let alone big transitions. The best advice I can seem to give聽my daughter聽is 鈥淓xpect the unexpected鈥 鈥 which is hardly soothing.聽 She鈥檚 travelled the world 鈥 often by herself. We鈥檝e always encouraged that. But that doesn鈥檛 mean that change is always easy.
Personally, I often find change hard. I even stick with things when it would be better if I didn鈥檛 - be that old sofas, old shoes, old clothes, or more complex emotional situations. In the Qur鈥檃n there is a huge focus on the transience of this world 鈥 verse after verse reminding the reader that change is inevitable. The Qur鈥檃n calls on the reader to strive for spiritual growth, to change themselves, to recognise the ultimate transition which will come.聽But knowing that change is inevitable, and even knowing that often the change will be good, doesn鈥檛 always make it any easier. Which is why I guess I love the Prayer of Serenity so much 鈥淕od grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference, living one day at a time; enjoying one moment at a time; taking this world as it is and not as I would have it.鈥澛燦ot easy, but a way to peace I reckon.
Broadcast
- Wed 22 Sep 2021 06:30麻豆约拍 Radio 2