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Day 365: All you want, Dido

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -2 Well we’re just two days away from completing a year of Covid Island Discs. The second song of Covid Island Discs I cited was Dido “Sand in my shoes.... View Article

Day 364: Telegraph Road, Dire Straits

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -3 This is probably one of Dire Straits longest songs running for over 15 minutes. This song opened their Love over Gold album and it certainly is a fantastic and... View Article

Day 363: Travelin’ Prayer, Billy Joel

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -4 The opening song on Billy Joel’s Piano Man album was called Travelin’ Prayer. This is a particularly interesting song musically because it begins with a snare drum and piano... View Article

Day 362: Crocodile Rock, Elton John

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -5 Like the song Daniel (Covid Island Discs Day 134), Crocodile Rock was a song that also was in that Hydro Majestic hotel’s Jukebox and one that my brother and... View Article

Day 361: Hammer Horror, Kate Bush

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -6 So this song was a hit from Kate Bush’s album Lionheart. Is is a particularly intense and musically dramatic song and the accompanying video has all the Kate Bush... View Article

Day 360: My Sweet Lord, George Harrison

Countdown to the year anniversary of Covid Island Discs T -7 Well we’ve made it to week 52 of Covid Island discs and coming up to the anniversary of when the UK first went into lockdown. I have decided that... View Article

Day 358: Eyes like twins, Wilson Phillips

Wow we begin week 52 of Covid Island Discs. We have nearly made it through a whole year of UK lockdown which is a sobering thought. In some ways it seems like only yesterday that Johnson announced the first lockdown... View Article