
Record Store Day with Erasure’s Andy Bell
Stuart Maconie celebrates Record Store Day, playing a selection of special new releases. Plus, Erasure’s Andy Bell shares his First, Last and Everything.
Stuart Maconie presents solo, with a feast of great music and chat for weekend breakfast.
To mark Record Store Day today, Stuart plays a selection of special new releases and is joined by Record Store Day supporter Erasure’s Andy Bell, who shares his ‘First, Last and Everything’ – that’s the first record he bought, the most recent he has been enjoying and the one that means ‘everything’ to him.
Andy Bell is the lead singer of synth-pop duo Erasure, who have topped the charts with various hit singles, including ‘A Little Respect’, ‘Sometimes’ and ‘Always’. The band also have their own Record Store Day release, a vinyl edition of ‘Ne:Ep’, which originally came out on CD and cassette last year.
Also on the show... long-running feature ‘The Chain’ which gives listeners the chance to pick a track that links in some way to the last. The list now contains over 8000 songs.
With a selection of music old and new to get the weekend started.
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Music Played
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T. Rex
Metal Guru
- Music Club.
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Wet Leg
Supermarket
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Janelle Monáe
Make Me Feel
- Atlantic.
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Les Baxter
Que Mango!
- Que Mango!.
- Vinyl Exotica.
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Emma‐Jean Thackray
Venus (Black Science Orchestra Remix)
- Movementt.
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The Human League
Hard Times
- Love And Dancing.
- Virgin Record Ltd.
- 1.
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer
From The Beginning
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Kojey Radical
Can't Go Back
- Asylum / Atlantic.
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Suede
Metal Mickey
- Nude Records.
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Dusty Springfield
Little By Little
- Dusty- The Silver Collection.
- Philips.
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Johnny Marr
Ghoster
- New Voodoo Limited/BMG.
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James Alexander Bright
Soul
- K7!.
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Scritti Politti
Oh Patti (Don't Feel Sorry For Loverboy)
- Virgin.
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Monophonics
Warpaint
- Colemine Records.
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St. Vincent
Digital Witness
- St Vincent.
- LomaVista/Caroline International.
- 001.
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Floating Points
Vocoder
- Ninja Tune.
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Bob Marley & The Wailers
Concrete Jungle
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The Roches
Losing True
- Keep On Doing.
- Warner Records.
- 2.
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Panic Shack
The Ick
- Brace Yourself Records.
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Erasure
Leaving (Gareth Shortland Acoustic Mix)
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Ibibio Sound Machine
17 18 19
- Merge Records.
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David Bowie
Ashes to Ashes
- EMI.
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Rihanna
Only Girl (In The World)
- 1Xtra: The Album.
- WM UK.
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Blondie
11:59
- Parallel Lines.
- EMI Records Limited.
- 7.
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Mykki Blanco
Family Ties (feat. Michael Stipe)
- Transgressive.
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Jurassic 5
Work It Out
- CD SINGLE.
- Interscope.
Broadcast
- Sat 23 Apr 202208:00BBC Radio 6 Music
