So this week there are no MTV-type videos to complement the songs (all the videos are simply the bands performing their music) so it is a bit of a difficult choice to make in terms of which is my favourite video. I think this week my choice is between Sylvia's Mother by Dr Hook and When God made me by Neil Young. The latter video is by far the best in terms of video quality (a lot of the other videos suffer from their obvious age: most shot in the 70s) while the former gets my vote because Dr Hook have that unique look with Ray Sawyer wearing that very distinctive pirate eyepatch over his right eye

PG: "This one's for Henry Kissinger who got the Nobel peace prize for bombing the living daylights out of Cambodia"

Love playing this song on my guitar. Remember first seeing this clip back in '93 when I was sharing a flat in Manchester with a group of university students. Those were the days of video recorders so I recorded the BBC show and held onto the video tape long after my video player died. Finally threw it out a few years back but still love this concert which now is scattered across Youtube.

Now this song fits the psychedelic sci-fi pop genre perfectly. A complete classic from the rather "out there" band the B52s. This is their third appearance in Covid Island Discs. Enjoy Kate's continuous singing of a single note being electronically mixed with her synthesizer. Very cool.

She came from Planet Claire I knew she came from there She drove a Plymouth Satellite A-faster than the speed of light Planet Claire has pink air All the trees are red No one ever dies there No one has a head

So what do I open up week 59 with? How about this little number from the British band the Squeeze which was a hit in 1979. "Cool for cats" is certainly one of those songs that everyone who was born in the 60s will remember. Like the reference to the 70s police soap The Sweeney.

Wow another amazing Youtube find to open week 61 of Covid Island Discs. This is the Beatles classic While My Guitar Gently Weeps a song which nearly didn't make it onto the White album because sadly poor George was not seen as a musical equal to John and Paul. Anyway, apparently with the intervention of Eric Clapton, this song made it onto the White album.

This performance of the classic song was done in 2004 in memory of George Harrison by a group of artists who really are all rock and roll legends in their own right. I'm sure the late great George would have been proud. Enjoy!!

A rock and roll classic from Roxy Music celebrating love/sex I guess?

This one of the Police's strangest songs. I cite this song straight after yesterday's song by Dido Life for Rent because apparently it is about a guy submitting to his girlfriend in a relationship but in the final verse he turns the tables on her and she becomes wrapped around his finger. Again these songs capture the more adversarial aspect of boy/girl relationships where both parties are trying to establish dominance over the other rather than acting in love which ideally looks to putting the other person's interests first.