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Now That’s What I Call 1980!

Marc Collin of Nouvelle Vague shares a favourite vinyl record in a special edition focusing on 1980 and packed with 'classic trax’ from that great year in music - 45 years ago!

This week on Grant Stott’s Vinyl Collective, acclaimed French musician, film music composer and record producer Marc Collin, best known for co-founding the Jazzy Bossa-Nova project Nouvelle Vague, shares his favourite vinyl record in a special edition of the show: Now That’s What I Call 1980!

It's an edition packed with ‘classic trax’, focusing on that great year in music – 45 years ago.

What did you buy, who did you go to see… who with?

Grant will have a Tartan Special Double-Top on Side 2 of the show, plus a countdown of the top ten best-selling albums of 1980.

He’ll also have another cracking Into the Groove 12” and a Magnificent 7".

All that and instantly recognisable songs from some of the biggest stars of the 80s, including: The Jam, Diana Ross, Simple Minds, Billy Joel, Olivia Newton-John, Elvis Costello, The Police, David Bowie and more.

It’s two hours of new and classic cuts all played from 7", 12" and vinyl LPs.

#FridayNightIsVinylNight

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Last on

Fri 21 Nov 202519:00
BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Orkney & BBC Radio Shetland only

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Music Played

  • The Jam

    Start!

  • The Police

    So Lonely

  • David Bowie

    Fashion

  • The Gibson Brothers

    Cuba

  • Yarbrough & Peoples

    Don’t Stop the Music

  • Odyssey

    Use It Up (Wear It Out

  • Jimmy Ruffin

    Hold On To My Love

  • Shalamar

    I Owe You One

  • ABBA

    Super Trouper

  • Hot Chocolate

    No Doubt About It

  • Billy Joel

    It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me

  • AC/DC

    Back In Black

  • Simple Minds

    I Travel

  • The Tourists

    So Good To Be Back Home Again

  • UB40

    Food for Thought

  • Nouvelle Vague

    Love Will Tear Us Apart

  • Visage

    Fade To Grey

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    Messages

  • Ramones

    Baby I Love You

  • Diana Ross

    I'm Coming Out

  • The Piranhas

    Tom Hark

  • Madness

    Night Boat To Cairo

  • Joan Armatrading

    Me, Myself I

  • Split Enz

    I Got You

  • Olivia Newton-John & Electric Light Orchestra

    Xanadu

Broadcasts

  • Fri 21 Nov 202518:00
    BBC Radio Scotland Extra & FM only
  • Fri 21 Nov 202519:00
    BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Orkney & BBC Radio Shetland only