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Christopher Edge on David Bowie

Author Christopher Edge joins Chris to explain how the music and life of David Bowie inspired his new children's book, Space Oddity.

Plus there's a fourth pick from this week's 5 Before 6 DJ.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Last on

Thu 7 Jan 202105:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Basement Jaxx

    Yo-Yo

    • Remedy.
    • XL Recordings.

  • Tierra Whack

    Peppers & Onions

    • Polydor.

  • Mysie

    Patterns

  • Everything Everything

    Photoshop Handsome

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Echo & the Bunnymen

    Ocean Rain

    • Ocean Rain.
    • Korova.
    • 9.

  • Julia Stone

    Dance

    • BMG.

  • Madness

    Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    Cheated Hearts

    • Fiction.

  • shame

    Water in the Well

    • Dead oceans.

  • The Byrds

    Goin' Back

    • Columbia.

  • Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy Five

    Jazzy Sensation (12" Bronx Version)

    • Tommy Boy.

  • Django Django

    Glowing in the Dark

    • Because Music.

  • Superorganism

    Something For Your M.I.N.D. (6 Music Session, 23 Apr 2018)

  • Scott Walker

    The Old Man's Back Again

    • Scott 4.
    • Philips / Fontana.

  • Chromeo

    Needy Girl

    • She's In Control.
    • V2.
    • 2.

  • Thundercat

    Fair Chance (Floating Points Remix) (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B)

    • Brainfeeder.

  • Portishead

    Sour Times

    • Go Beat.

  • Big Thief

    Not

    • 4AD.

  • Arlo Parks

    Caroline

    • Transgressive.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Jackie Wilson Said

  • Made Kuti

    Free Your Mind

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.

  • Japan

    Ghosts

    • Virgin.

  • David Bowie

    Space Oddity

    • EMI.

  • Arab Strap

    Compersion Pt. 1

    • Rock Action Records.

  • Gotts Street Park & Pip Millet

    Change My Ways

    • Blue Flowers.

  • The Housemartins

    Happy Hour

    • Go! Discs!.

  • Fontaines D.C.

    You Said

    • PARTISAN RECORDS.

  • Joan As Police Woman

    Tell Me

    • Play It Again Sam.

  • Lauryn Hill

    Everything is Everything

    • Columbia/Ruff House.

  • J Lloyd

    If I Fall Under

    • JFC Worldwide under exclusive licence to AWAL Recordings.

  • Garbage

    Milk

    • Mushroom.

  • David Holmes

    I Heard Wonders

    • CD SINGLE.
    • MERCURY RECORDS.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Thu 7 Jan 202105:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music