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Radio 2 Piano Room - Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega - the voice behind Luka, Marlene on the Wall and Tom's Diner - performs from Maida Vale alongside the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, with her set including a Blondie cover.

Suzanne Vega - the voice behind Luka, Marlene on the Wall and Tom's Diner - performs live from Maida Vale alongside the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, with her set including a Blondie cover.

With a career spanning almost 40 years, Suzanne is a hugely respected artist both in her native America and around the world. Known as the voice behind Luka, Marlene on the Wall and Tom's Diner, Suzanne has released nine studio albums in total, plus the recent live album An Evening of New York Songs and Stories.

This year Suzanne is undertaking a huge US and European tour, with UK dates in February and March.

Radio 2 Piano Room Month sees an abundance of world famous award-winning artists gather to perform exclusively with the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, and each artist will be performing three tracks - a new song, one of their well-known tracks, and a classic cover version from another artist - with members of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra accompanying.

Plus, Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch chooses his Tracks of My Years. Formed in the mid-90s, the idea behind the group was to stay on a small scale, to keep it as a project and not let the band run their lives; planning to release two albums and break up.

Instead they have delivered multiple classic albums over the years including like If You're Feeling Sinister and The Boy with the Arab Strap, and latest LP Late Developers - a recent Radio 2 Album of the Week - has given us new single I Don’t Know What You See in Me.

Stuart's penultimate choices are from The Associates and Michael Kiwanuka.

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 9 Feb 2023 09:30
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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Music Played

  • The Trammps

    Disco Inferno

    • NOW Boogie Nights - Disco Classics (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Record Of The Week

    • Sugababes

      Today

      • The Lost Tapes.
      • Sugababes.

  • Basement Jaxx

    Do Your Thing

  • The Four Seasons

    December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)

    • The Very Best Of.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 11.

  • Destiny’s Child

    Survivor

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Richard Marx

    Believe In Me

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Mike Oldfield

    Moonlight Shadow

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

  • ²Ήβ€h²Ή

    Take On Me

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • P!nk

    TRUSTFALL

    • TRUSTFALL.
    • RCA.

  • The Weeknd

    I Feel It Coming (feat. Daft Punk)

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal Republic Records.

  • Lonestar

    Amazed

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Lady Blackbird

    Woman

    • Black Acid Soul.
    • BMG Rights Management.

  • Christina Aguilera

    Genie In A Bottle

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Britney Spears

    Oops!... I Did It Again

    • Now That's What I Call No.1's (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Katie Melua

    Golden Record

    • (CD Single).
    • BMG.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Celebration

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

  • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

    Easy Now

    • Council Skies (Deluxe Edition).
    • Sour Mash Records.

  • Tracks Of My Years

    • The Associates

      Party Fears Two

      • Generation 80's (Various Artists).
      • Ocho/Union Square.

    • Michael Kiwanuka

      Black Man In A White World

      • Love & Hate.
      • Polydor Records.
      • 2.

  • Album Of The Week

    • Shania Twain

      Giddy Up!

      • Queen Of Me.
      • EMI.

  • Mason Williams

    Classical Gas

    • The Mason Williams Phonograph Record.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Suzanne Vega & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Tom's Diner (Radio 2 Piano Room, 9 Feb 2023)

  • Suzanne Vega & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Last Train From Mariupol (Radio 2 Piano Room, 9 Feb 2023)

  • Suzanne Vega & ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra

    Dreaming (Radio 2 Piano Room, 9 Feb 2023)

  • Lemar

    Someday We'll Be Together

    • The Letter.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
    • 10.

Broadcast

  • Thu 9 Feb 2023 09:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2