Post by Q3 on Mar 30, 2013 22:34:38 GMT -5
Happy Easter!!
A couple of my favorite Adam-Easter images
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No Adam involved but just too much fun not to post.
Better than Playlists, Desert Island Discs
3.31.13 by Q3
There is a amazing place located online - the entire archive of the BBC's Desert Island Discs program(me). Over 22,000 favorite tracks. All searchable, all organized and all available for free online listening -- and all downloadable: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs
Here are a few random examples....
Elvis Costello
First broadcast: Sun 23 Feb 1992
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. Widely regarded as one of the best British songwriters of recent years, he comes from a musical family - both his father and grandfather were HeWhoCannot amedeters.
He'll be talking to Sue Lawley about his eclectic taste in music, comparing classical singers to pop stars, and choosing eight records, not for pleasure, but to provide sustenance on his desert island.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
1. Castaway's favourite
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135 - 2nd movement
Orchestra: The Brodsky Quartet
3.Ross Macmanus & The Joe Loss Orchestra
At Last
Non so più cosa son (from The Marriage of Figaro)
Soloist: Cecilia BartoliOrchestra: The Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraConductor: Daniel Barenboim
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960 -1st movement
Soloist: Alfred BrundelOrchestra: The English Concert OrchestraConductor: Trevor Pinnock
When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) (from Dido and Aeneas)
Soloist: Anne Sofie Von OtterOrchestra: The English Concert OrchestraConductor: Trevor Pinnock
8.Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
Blood Count
Brian May
First broadcast: Sun 15 Sep 2002
Lead guitarist of Queen
Brian May spent his childhood in Feltham near London and he learnt his first chords on his father's ukelele banjo. He soon progressed to the guitar, which he started learning when he was eight. He perfected his technique by buying records and copying the trickiest guitar parts. Although Brian's dream was to be a guitarist, it didn't seem like a reality so, encouraged by his parents, he went to London University's Imperial College to study physics. Whilst there he continued playing in bands with his drummer friend Roger Taylor. They were soon joined by art student Freddie Bulsara (who became Freddie Mercury) and John Deacon and formed Queen. Brian was researching infra red astronomy and part-time tutoring, but Queen soon hit the big time with their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, a success on both sides of the Atlantic. The band recorded 20 albums over a 22 year period and had frequent hits around the world with Killer Queen, Radio Ga Ga and Bohemian Rhapsody. Brian wrote huge Queen hits such as We will Rock You, Fat Bottomed Girls and Flash. They were known for their flamboyant live shows, where Brian provided technical brilliance and extended guitar solos inspired by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. When lead singer Freddie Mercury died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991, Brian and his fellow band members organised a huge tribute concert for AIDS research which was shown on television screens around the world.
Thirty-one years after Queen began, the band is still popular: Bohemian Rhapsody was voted most popular British song in a BBC Radio 2 poll this year, 24 years after its first release. Brian has also written and toured with his own band and in June this year he kicked off the Queen's Jubilee concert with an amazing guitar solo of The National Anthem from the roof of Buckingham Palace. This month he came fifth in a poll to find the World's Greatest Guitarists.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
Saturn (from The Planets)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National OrchestraConductor: Alexander Gibson
4. The Babys
Back on my Feet Again
6.Rainbow
Since You've Been Gone
7.Ac/Dc
Highway to Hell
8.Brian May and Queen
We Will Rock You
George Michael
First broadcast: Sun 30 Sep 2007
Singer, Songwriter
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is George Michael. As a singer and songwriter he has enjoyed massive global success for a quarter of a century. He's sold more than 100 million records, won two Grammy awards and notched up countless number one hits.
His ability to write, produce, and perform perfect pop songs is unquestioned. But along with the career highs, there have been lows too: he lost a long wrangle with his record company, was crippled by bereavement and for years questions about his sexuality were a matter of newspaper headlines until he was spectacularly outed a decade ago. In a rare interview, George Michael talks candidly to Kirsty Young about how he regained his emotional and professional confidence - and is now a happier and more peaceful man.
[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]
Choices
Here's the background about the show from the BBC:
Late one evening in 1941, freelance broadcaster Roy Plomley was at his home and already in his pyjamas, when an idea came to him. He sat down and wrote immediately to the BBC. That letter reached the in-tray of the BBC’s Head of Popular Record Programmes, Leslie Perowne. The pitch was successful and a broadcasting institution was born.
That first Desert Island Discs was recorded in the BBC’s bomb-damaged Maida Vale studio on 27th January 1942 and aired in the Forces Programme at 8pm two days later. It was introduced to the listening public as "a programme in which a well-known person is asked the question, if you were to be cast away alone on a desert island, which eight gramophone records would you choose to have with you, assuming of course, that you had a gramophone and an inexhaustible supply of needles".
Plomley’s first castaway was the popular Viennese comedian, actor and musician, Vic Oliver. The first piece of music chosen by Vic Oliver, and therefore by any castaway, was Chopin’s Étude No.12 in C minor played by pianist Alfred Cortot. During these war years, every BBC Radio show was scripted and Plomley and his guests would 'read' their conversations. On 7th May 1942 Roy Plomley made his first appearance as a castaway when the programme was presented by Leslie Perowne.
The programme came off air in 1946 returning to the Home Service in 1951. On 16th September that year, the choice of luxury was introduced when garlic was chosen by the actress Sally Ann Howes. The choice of book made its first appearance on 9th October 1951 when actor and director Henry Kendall chose Who’s Who in the Theatre. According to Roy Plomley’s book, Desert Island Lists, in addition to the volume of Shakespeare, the castaways would be given a copy of the Bible, which was assumed to have been deposited there by The Gideon Society.
In September 1967, Desert Island Discs transferred to the newly created Radio 4 service. Roy Plomley continued to present the programme until his death, from pleurisy, in May 1985. He was 71. He was replaced by Michael Parkinson who dispensed with the ritual of the pre-recording lunch at Plomley’s club, the Garrick, and insisted that the music was played to the guests during the recording rather than edited in afterwards. Parkinson presented the last of his 96 programmes on 13th March 1988, when his guest was the athlete Brendan Foster.
Sue Lawley became the first female presenter and over the following 18 years, Lawley, a former Nationwide presenter, interviewed 750 people from all aspects of public life including politics, entertainment, science and sport. Describing the role as “one of the best jobs in broadcasting”, Lawley left Desert Island Discs in August 2006 and was replaced by journalist and broadcaster, Kirsty Young. During her tenure in the chair the programme has become available to listen again online and is available as a download.
Link: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/about/history-of-desert-island-discs
In May 2011, that asked listeners which eight discs they would take if they were going to be cast away alone on the mythical desert island. www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/about/your-desert-island-discs
So here in my question for you -- WHAT IS YOUR DESERT ISLAND DISC LIST? 8 tracks, listed in order, post them in the thread. Extra points if you list includes Adam Lambert tracks! Even more points if your list includes any other artist than Adam!@!?
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