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Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Embrace's Danny McNamara shares his favourite vinyl album. Grant celebrates significant birthdays for Jimmy Somerville and Tears For Fears's Curt Smith. #FridayNightIsVinylNight

Grant celebrates 65th birthdays for Bronski Beat's Jimmy Somerville and Curt Smith of Tears For Fears, and Embrace's Danny McNamara shares his favourite vinyl album. There's a tribute to the late music mogul Clive Davis, who discovered Whitney Houston, among many other stars, and Grant counts down the Top 10 albums from this week in 1993. Plus another classic Into the Groove, a Magnificent 7" and music from Simple Minds, Def Leppard, Groove Armada and more. #FridayNightIsVinylNight

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Music Played

  • Simple Minds

    Waterfront

  • Tears for Fears

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World

  • Def Leppard

    Animal

  • Shalamar

    Second Time Around

  • Four Tops

    When She Was My Girl

  • Prefab Sprout

    When Love Breaks Down

  • Jamiroquai

    When You Gonna Learn

  • Jalen Ngonda

    Hang It On The Shelf

  • Brooke Combe

    Dancing At The Edge Of The World

  • Bronski Beat

    It Ain't Necessarily So

  • Whitney Houston

    Saving All My Love For You

  • Billy Joel

    Pianoman

  • Groove Armada

    At The River

  • Embrace

    Stop

  • The Shangri‐Las

    I'll Never Learn

  • Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett

    Don't Look Any Further

  • Randy Crawford

    One Day I'll Fly Away

  • Joan Jett

    I Love Rock'n'Roll

  • Mondo Kane

    New York Afternoon

  • Matt Bianco

    Yeh Yeh

  • Whitney Houston

    I Have Nothing

Broadcasts

  • Last Friday18:00
    BBC Radio Scotland Extra & FM only
  • Last Friday19:00
    BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Shetland & BBC Radio Orkney only