Paul Morley - The North (and Almost Everything in It)

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Rock journalist Paul Morley on the north and what it means to be a northerner

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Music used in the series
Episode 1

Ewan MacColl ‘Dirty Old Town’

The Smiths ‘Cemetery Gates’

Tredegar Town Band ‘Procession to the Minster’

Eric Spear ‘Coronation Street Theme’

Morrissey ‘Every Day Is Like Sunday’

Episode 2

The Searchers ‘Jennifer Eccles’

George Formby ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows’

Gracie Fields ‘Sing as We Go’

Tredegar Town Band ‘Procession to the Minster’

The Smiths ‘Suffer Little Children’

Episode 3

The Smiths ‘Back to the Old House’

Grimethrope Colliery Band ‘Dvorak Symphony No 9’

Les Dawson (external YouTube link)

Grimethrope Colliery Band Elgar’s Nimrod

Beady Eye ‘True Blue'

Episode 4

The Smiths ‘The Headmaster Ritual’

Victoria Wood ‘The Ballad of Barry and Freda’

The Smiths ‘How Soon is Now?’

T. Rex ‘Hot Love’

David Bowie ‘Ziggy Stardust’

The Fall ‘Victoria’

Sex Pistols ‘God Save the Queen’

Episode 5

Sex Pistols ‘Anarchy in the UK’

Sex Pistols ‘Good Save the Queen’

Joy Division ‘Atmosphere’