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Guy goes to Holland for his new favourite band and says happy birthday to Lou Reed. Plus music from Bob Dylan, the Shangri-Las and Laura Veirs.

Guy goes to Holland for his new favourite band and says happy birthday to Lou Reed.

Plus old music from Bob Dylan, the Shangri-Las and Laura Veirs, new music from Beirut and Chris Brain and a controversial opinion about a busking classic.

Elsewhere the Beckapedia rediscovers a prog classic ideal for Sunday lunchtimes and Simon Armitage gets in on the name dropping.

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Sun 2 Mar 202513:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Heartless B's

    Only For You

  • The Shangri‐Las

    Sophisticated Boom Boom

  • Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

    • Telstar.

  • HAEVN

    Promise

  • Grandaddy

    Jed's Other Poem

  • Annexe The Moon

    Hold Me Down

  • Laura Veirs

    To the Country

  • Lou Reed

    Andy's Chest

  • Beirut

    Guericke's Unicorn

    • Pompeii Records.

  • Lord Huron

    Ends Of The Earth

  • Lift to Experience

    These Are The Days

    • Bella Union.

  • DJ Shadow

    Scale It Back (feat. Little Dragon)

    • Island.

  • Led Zeppelin

    Black Dog (1/4/71 Paris Theatre)

  • Jolie Holland

    Fox In Its Hole

    • Anti.

  • Fats Waller

    What Will I Do In the Morning?

    • Rolled Gold.

  • Lisa Germano

    Nobody's Playing

  • Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

    Ruby

    • World Circuit Ltd.

  • Arthur Russell

    A Little Lost

  • The Police

    The Bed's Too Big Without You

  • Los Angeles Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta

    Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man

  • Joni Mitchell

    Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire

    • Asylum.

  • Chris Brain

    Two Lights

  • Rickie Lee Jones

    My One and Only Love

  • Bob Dylan

    Simple Twist of Fate

    • Columbia Records.

  • Feist

    Brandy Alexander

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

  • Mountain

    Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)

  • Elton John

    Your Starter For

  • The Caravelles

    Don't Blow Your Cool

  • Ennio Morricone & Edda Dell’Orso

    Deborah's Theme

  • Loretta Lynn

    High On A Mountain Top

  • Fred Astaire

    I Concentrate On You

    • Verve.

  • The Rolling Stones

    Moonlight Mile

    • Virgin.

  • Björk

    Cocoon

  • Louis Armstrong

    La Vie En Rose

Broadcast

  • Sun 2 Mar 202513:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music