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PopMaster and Curt Smith

Tears For Fears' Curt Smith chooses his penultimate Tracks Of My Years, plus there's more PopMaster. Ken also has his Record and Album Of The Week, and The Love Song at 1015.

Curt Smith of Tears For Fears chooses his penultimate Tracks Of My Years, plus there's more PopMaster. Ken also has his Record and Album Of The Week, and The Love Song is at 1015.

Curt and childhood friend Roland Orzabal founded Tears For Fears from the ashes of their earlier group Graduate in 1981, and their debut album, 1983's The Hurting, reached no.1 in the UK and produced three international hit singles – "Mad World", "Change", and "Pale Shelter".

They enjoyed further success before an acrimonious split in 1991, and Curt went on to collaborate with several other artists and producers before Tears For Fears reformed in 2004.

However it's only now Curt and Roland have got round to finally making the follow-up album 'The Tipping Point', which will be released early in 2022. The title track has already been heavily playlisted on Radio 2, and the album is described as "one that vividly recalls the depth and emotional force of the group’s earliest triumphs."

Ken's got another round of the legendary PopMaster music quiz and your dedications with today's love song. There's also the record and album of the week.

If you want to contact the show, just email - ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Thu 6 Jan 2022 09:30
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Music Played

  • Tavares

    Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel

    • 20 Songs Of Love From The 70's (Vario.
    • MFP.

  • Steps

    A Hundred Years Of Winter

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

  • Talk Talk

    It's My Life

    • More Greatest Hits Of 80's (Various).
    • Disky.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

  • Odyssey

    Native New Yorker

    • Million Sellers Vol.17 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • GAYLE

    abc (nicer)

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.

  • Melba Moore

    This Is It

    • 25 Years Of Rock `n' Roll - 1976.
    • Connoisseur.

  • Don Henley

    The Boys Of Summer

    • The Very Best Of.
    • MCA.

  • Kylie Minogue & Jessie Ware

    Kiss Of Life

    • DISCO: Guest List Edition.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Emeli SandΓ©

    Hurts

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin Records.

  • Van Morrison

    Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.
    • 2.

  • Record of the Week

    • Yola

      Dancing Away In Tears

      • Stand For Myself.
      • Easy Eye Sound.
      • 2.

  • Foreigner

    Cold As Ice

    • 40.
    • Rhino Atlantic.
    • 3.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    The Boxer

    • The Definitive Simon & Garfunkel.
    • Columbia.

  • Jack Savoretti

    The Way You Said Goodbye

    • Europiana.
    • UMG.

  • Mike Oldfield

    Moonlight Shadow

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
    • 13.

  • Years & Years & Galantis

    Sweet Talker

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.

  • Keane

    Somewhere Only We Know

    • (CD Single).
    • Transcopic Records.

  • Womack & Womack

    Teardrops

    • And They Danced All Night.
    • Debutante.

  • Album of the Week

    • Rachel Zegler

      I Feel Pretty (feat. Yassmin Alers, Tanairi Sade Vazquez, Ana Isabelle, Ilda Mason, Annelise Cepero, Jamila Velazquez & AndrΓ©a Burns)

      • West Side Story [ Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ].
      • Walt Disney Records.

  • Jackson Browne

    Somebody's Baby

  • Mabel

    Time After Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Olivia Newton‐John

    Physical

    • Physical.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Tracks of My Years

    • Peter Gabriel

      Games Without Frontiers

      • Shaking The Tree.
      • Virgin.

    • The Blue Nile

      A Walk Across the Rooftops

      • Linn, A & M.

  • David Bowie

    Can't Help Thinking About Me

    • TOY (TOY:BOX).
    • ISO Records.

  • Gabrielle

    When A Woman

    • (CD Single).
    • Go Beat.

Broadcast

  • Thu 6 Jan 2022 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2