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80s icon Toyah chooses two more songs on her 10 song journey on Tracks Of My Years. Plus there's more audio gold in Vernon's Vault, and music quizzing in Ten To The Top.

80s icon Toyah continues on her 10 song journey on this week's Tracks Of My Years.

Performing on stage and screen for over 50 years, Toyah is an award-winning performer with hit singles like It's A Mystery, I Want to Be Free and Brave New World. She has amassed thirteen top 40 singles, recorded twenty-five albums, written two books, appeared in over forty stage plays, acted in over twenty feature films and presented many television programmes.

As well as her music and touring, Toyah hosts a very successful YouTube channel called Sunday Lunch. Her and her husband, Robert Fripp, started the channel during lockdown, with the videos featuring a mix of songs Robert has played on or that they’ve both been connected to over the years.

Last year, she played at Glastonbury with Robert, and she appeared on the 22nd series of 'Strictly Come Dancing', as first revealed on Vernon's show.

In 2018, Paul McCartney awarded Toyah a Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts Companionship for Outstanding Achievement in music, drama, performance and media.

Plus the mid-morning music quiz Ten To The Top, a trip in to the BBC Archive with Vernon's Vault, and the Record and Album Of The Week.

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Music Played

  • Simple Minds

    Don't You (Forget About Me)

    • Glittering Prize - Best Of Simple Min.
    • Virgin.

  • Adventures of Stevie V

    Dirty Cash (Money Talks)

    • Now 18 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Olly Murs

    Save Me

    • Knees Up.
    • EMI.

  • Texas

    Summer Son

    • Texas - The Greatest Hits.
    • Mercury.

  • Suede

    Dancing With The Europeans

    • BMG Rights Management (UK).

  • The Zombies

    She's Not There

    • The Godfathers Of Britpop.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Simply Red

    Fairground

    • Simply Red Greatest Hits.
    • East West Records.

  • Ella Eyre

    space

    • everything, in time.
    • Play It Again Sam.

  • Kid Creole and the Coconuts

    Annie I'm Not Your Daddy

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 2 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.

  • Olivia Dean

    Man I Need

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.

  • Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand

    No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

    • Barbra Streisand - Duets.
    • Columbia.

  • Belinda Carlisle

    Get Together

    • Once Upon A Time In California.
    • EMI.

  • Lulu

    Shout

    • It's Party Time (Various Artists).
    • Magic.
    • 8.

  • Steely Dan

    Reelin' In The Years

    • A Decade Of Steely Dan.
    • MCA.

  • HUNTR/X

    Golden

    • K-Pop Demon Hunters O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • Republic.

  • Backstreet Boys

    Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Bryan Adams

    Roll With The Punches

    • Roll With The Punches.
    • Bad Records.

  • The Cure

    Friday I'm In Love

    • True Brit (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Craig David

    Rain

    • Commitment.
    • Believe UK.

  • T. Rex

    Ride a White Swan

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Roxy Music

    Do The Strand

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.

  • Sam Ryder

    Go Steady (feat. BBC Symphony Orchestra)

    • (CD Single).
    • Artist Theory.

Broadcast

  • Tue 2 Sep 202509:30
    BBC Radio 2

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