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Celebrating 50 years of Hip Hop with Romesh Ranganathan’s My 80s Hip Hop selection and a Sugar Hill Records Mastermix.

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Sat 12 Aug 202320:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Def Leppard

    Pour Some Sugar On Me

    • More Monkey Business From Catalogue Marketing (Various Artists).
    • Universal.

  • Bananarama

    Robert De Niro's Waiting

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Tina Turner

    What's Love Got To Do With It

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.

  • The Undertones

    My Perfect Cousin

    • The Undertones - Teenage Kicks.
    • Castle.

  • Dexys Midnight Runners

    Because Of You

    • Mercury.

  • THE MASTERMIX - SUGAR HILL RECORDS

    • Grandmaster Melle Mel & Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five

      Step Off

      • Top Of The Pops - 1985.
      • UMC (Universal Music Catalogue).
      • 19.

    • Grandmaster Flash

      The Message

    • Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

      It's Nasty (Genius Of Love)

      • Sequel Records.

    • Funky Four

      That's The Joint

      • Sugarhill Records.

    • The Sugarhill Gang

      Rapper's Delight

      • Global Television.

    • Grandmaster Flash & Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five

      The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash...

      • Snapper.

    • Positive Force

      We Got The Funk

      • The First Days Of Disco (Various).
      • Sanctuary.

    • Grandmaster Flash

      White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

      • Best Of Sugar Hill Records (Various Artists).
      • Rhino Records.

    • The Sugarhill Gang

      Apache

      • Gas.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    La Luna

    • Runaway Horses.
    • Virgin.

  • Madonna

    La Isla Bonita

    • The Hits Album 6 (Various Artists).
    • BMG.
    • 3.

  • MY 80s - ROMESH RANGANATHAN

    • Public Enemy

      Rebel Without A Pause

      • Global Television.

    • Run‐D.M.C.

      Sucker MCs

      • Fourth & Broadway.

    • Eric B. & Rakim

      Microphone Fiend

      • MCA Records.

    • Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

      The Message

      • (CD Single).
      • Deep Beats.

  • GARY'S BIT IN THE MIDDLE

    • The Cure

      Lullaby

      • Fiction.

  • D Mob

    C'Mon And Get My Love (feat. Cathy Dennis)

    • Move To This.
    • FFRR.
    • 3.

Broadcast

  • Sat 12 Aug 202320:00
    BBC Radio 2