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The Don's selections include the week's Crucial Vinyl from the Smiths

Don's selections cross time, space and genre, plus his Crucial Vinyl is The Queen is Dead by the Smiths.

Don's selections cross time and space - ranging from the UK to the USA, JA and beyond - and include this week's Crucial Vinyl: The Queen is Dead by The Smiths.

Each week Don picks an album from his collection that means a lot to him. He explains why and features three tracks from it.

Don says, "I first heard this record when I was on holiday with Mick Jones in Jamaica, shortly
after it was released in 1986. There was no mistaking that this was indeed a great
record - I figured that out after the first few tracks. Morrissey's subject matter,
delivery and dark humour combined with Johnny Marr's guitar work, which is nothing
short of astounding, left us in no doubt.

By the time I'd listened whole thing I was a Smiths convert, and, on my return to the UK, I immediately bought their first two albums, and I've bought everything since, and I mean everything.".

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Sun 14 Jun 2015 22:00
BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Answer To Your Name (feat. Protoje)

  • Funk 49 (feat. James Gang)

  • Rum And Coca Cola (feat. The Andrews Sisters)

  • Blaze Up The Fire (feat. Major Lazer & Chronixx)

  • My Girls (feat. Animal Collective)

  • Like A Fool (feat. Crazy P)

  • Everyman (feat. Dub Smugglers & Nat T)

  • Jackie Blue (feat. AM & Shawn Lee)

  • Gyae Su (feat. Pat Thomas)

  • These Walls (feat. Kendrick Lamar, Anna Wise, Bilal & Thundercat)

  • Garden (feat. C Duncan)

  • Dub Of Noise (feat. The Casual Sexists Meet Wrongtom)

  • Sunshine Superman (feat. Donovan)

  • Fingers (feat. Joi)

  • Sunshower (feat. Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band)

  • Turn (Uhuru Peak Remix) (feat. The Seshen)

  • Elenor Reggae (feat. Loo & Placido)

  • Breathe (feat. HÆLOS)

  • Nothing Left To Talk About (feat. Sarah Cracknell)

  • Intimate Friends (feat. Eddie Kendricks)

  • Falling Through The Wall (feat. Werkha)

  • Rush I Some Dub (feat. Tapper Zukie)

  • The Queen Is Dead (feat. The Smiths)

    • The Queen Is Dead.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Bigmouth Strikes Again (feat. The Smiths)

    • The Queen Is Dead.
    • Rough Trade.

  • There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (feat. The Smiths)

    • The Queen Is Dead.
    • Rough Trade.

  • Cool Out Son (feat. Junior Murvin)

  • Punch Bag (feat. The Bees)

  • Fin De Siecle (feat. Daedelus)

  • Even

Broadcast

  • Sun 14 Jun 2015 22:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music