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Cold Water - Lisa Hannigan & Damien Rice

Cold, cold water surrounds me now
And all I've got is your hand

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Theme from Schindler's List

At the end of the week of Holocaust memorial (Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated on 27th January 1945)

While reading 'I Am David' to help N with homework

Filled with sadness about Bronagh

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So What - Miles Davis - from Kind of Blue (1959) as featured on Soul Music (BBC Radio 4)

Image courtesy of Miles Constable: "I attempted to capture the swirl and tones of Miles Davis's Kind of Blue"

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Look Up - Zero 7 (reading Watchmen - memories of running along the dunes in Rush, Co. Dublin)

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When Poets Dreamed of Angels - David Sylvian from Secrets of the Beehive

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Moonriver performed by Morrissey

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Moonriver performed by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Henry Mancini said of Audrey H: "'Moon River' was written for her. No one else had ever understood it so completely. There have been more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is unquestionably the greatest".

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Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Some velvet morning when I'm straight
I'm gonna open up your gate

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Asa - Jailer (totally into this one at the moment, heard it on French radio - Nigerian singer, I gather, recorded in Paris)

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The Creator has a Master Plan - Brooklyn Funk Essentials

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She is So Beautiful - Mike Scott (of The Waterboys) - from Bring 'Em All In

For she is like a song
She is like a ray of light
She is like children praying
Like harps and bells and cymbals playing
And she is like a wind
Moving, soothing, bringing joy
And here am I
destroyed

Pine Ridge, Findhorn December 1992

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After the Love has gone - Earth Wind and Fire (on Italian radio in a Florentine taxi)

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Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip - as performed live at the Media Guardian Innovation Awards a few weeks ago, and as first heard in Rough Trade in Brick Lane on an afternoon out with the Enfants Terribles

"The Clash - just a band"

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Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

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She is So Beautiful - Mike Scott - from Bring 'Em All In

Track of the Day - Hot off the Press

for Paddy's Day a brand new arrival...

How can a Poor Boy? from Van's new record out today Keep It Simple

Broached on the couch with N

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I'm Still Waiting - Diana Ross

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Tainted Love by Soft Cell



Must find my Gloria Jones single this weekend...

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New World Order by Curtis Mayfield from the LP New World Order



Bought on my first day as a freelancer in 1987 - a new world order for me

Track of the Day - Andy Harris

Janie Jones by The Clash

in memory of Andy Harris RIP

He's in love with rock'n'roll woaahh