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Saturday 12pm: Brit Rock with Dominic Forbes

Great White Once bitten twice shy
Rolling Stones Mixed emotions
Stevie Nicks Stand back
Queen The miracle
Marillion Hooks in you
Tom Petty Running down a dream
Chris Rea The road to hell
Aerosmith What it takes
Don Henley New York minute
Eric Clapton Forever man
Poco Call it love
Iggy Pop The passenger
Deep Purple Hush
The Doors Hello I love you
Small Faces Afterglow of your love
Status Quo Pictures of matchstick men
Jimi Hendrix Experience Crosstown traffic
Creedence Clearwater Revival I put a spell on you
Beatles Blackbird
Joe Cocker With a little help from my friends
Cream White room
Canned Heat On the road again
Steppenwolf Born to be wild
Rolling Stones Sympathy for the devil
Mason Williams Classical gas
Johnny Cash Folsom prison blues
Soggy Bottom Boys I am a man of constant sorrow
Steve Earle Copperhead road
Glen Campbell Walls
Tom Petty Yer so bad
Travelling Wilburys End of the line
Bob Dylan Queen Jane approximately
The Eagles The last resort
Don Henley New York minute
Kings Of Leon Beautiful war
Allman Brothers Band Jessica
Dolly Parton Here you come again
Chely Wright Shut up and drive

Saturday 12pm: Brit Rock with Dominic Forbes

Today on Brit Rock

The Guess Who American Woman
The Beatles She’s a woman
Rolling Stones Honky tonk women
The Eagles Witchy woman
Foo Fighters My hero
Alice Cooper Only women bleed
Queensryche Silent lucidity
Magazine Shot by both sides
Killing Joke Love like blood
Dio Holy diver
Blink –182 I miss you
Marillion Beautiful
Pat Benatar We belong
U2 Elevation
Bon Jovi It’s my life
Iron Maiden Blood brothers
Blink –182 All the small things
Flogging Molly Devil’s dance floor
Offspring Original prankster
Linkin Park Crawling
Coldplay Yellow
Don Henley Taking you home
Alien Ant Farm Smooth criminal
Ozzy Osbourne Dreamer
Evanescence My immortal
The Darkness Friday night
Twisted Sister We’re not gonna take it
Quiet Riot Cum on feel the noize
Poison Talk dirty to me
Bon Jovi Lay your hands on me
Ratt Round and round
Cinderella Gypsy road
Whitesnake Cryin’ in the rain
The Scorpions Rock you like a hurricane
Y&T Summertime girls
Van Halen Jump
Motley Crue Home sweet home
Vixen Crying
REO Speedwagon Can’t fight this feeling

Wednesday 10pm: Rock Talk with Dominic Forbes

Donald Fagen
Photo: Joseph Sinnott

Donald Fagen was born in Passaic, New Jersey, on January 10, 1948, to Jewish parents, Joseph “Jerry” Fagen, an accountant, and his wife, Elinor, a homemaker who had been a swing singer in upstate New York’s Catskill Mountains from childhood through her teens. His family moved to the suburb of Fair Lawn around 1958 and soon after to a house on Bedford Road in the Kendall Park section of South Brunswick, New Jersey. The transition upset him; he detested living in the suburbs. He later recalled that it “was like a prison. I think I lost faith in [my parents’] judgment… It was probably the first time I realized I had my own view of life.” His life in Kendall Park, including his teenage love of late-night radio, inspired his album The Nightfly.

Fagen became interested in rock and rhythm and blues (R&B) in the late 1950s. The first record he bought was “Reelin’ and Rockin'” by Chuck Berry. At age eleven, he was recommended music by a cousin and went to the Newport Jazz Festival, becoming what he called a “jazz snob”: “I lost interest in rock ‘n’ roll and started developing an anti-social personality.” In the early 1960s, beginning at age twelve, he often went to the Village Vanguard, where he was particularly impressed by Earl Hines, Willie “The Lion” Smith, and Bill Evans. He regularly took the bus to Manhattan to see performances by jazz musicians Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis. He learned to play the piano, and he played baritone horn in the high school marching band. He developed a lifelong fondness for table tennis. In his late teens he was drawn to soul music, funk, Motown, and Sly and the Family Stone. He has also expressed admiration for the Boswell Sisters, Henry Mancini, and Ray Charles.

After graduating from South Brunswick High School in 1965, he enrolled at Bard College to study English literature, having been inspired by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At Bard he met musician Walter Becker. With a revolving assortment of musicians which included future actor Chevy Chase, Becker and Fagen formed the bands the Leather Canary, the Don Fagen Jazz Trio, and the Bad Rock Band.[9] Fagen described his college bands as sounding like “the Kingsmen performing Frank Zappa material”. None of the groups lasted long, but the partnership between Fagen and Becker did. The duo’s early career included working with Jay and the Americans, for which they used pseudonyms. In the early 1970s they worked as pop songwriters for ABC/Dunhill Records, which released all of Steely Dan’s 1970s albums. – Wikipedia

Wednesday 10pm: Rock Talk with Dominic Forbes

Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician and actor, best known for his role as the drummer and co-founder of the rock band Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood, whose surname was merged with that of the group’s bassist John “Mac” McVie to form the name of the band, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998.

Born in Redruth, Cornwall, Fleetwood lived in Egypt and Norway for many of his childhood years as his father travelled with the Royal Air Force. Choosing to follow his musical interests, Fleetwood travelled to London at the age of 15, eventually combining with Peter Green, Jeremy Spencer and Bob Brunning, at Green’s behest, to become the first incarnation of Fleetwood Mac. Fleetwood would remain the only member to stay with the band through its ever-changing line-up.

After several album releases and line-up changes, the group moved to the United States in 1974 in an attempt to boost the band’s success. Here Fleetwood invited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join. Buckingham and Nicks contributed to much of Fleetwood Mac’s later commercial success, including the celebrated album Rumours, while Fleetwood’s own determination to keep the band together was essential to the band’s longevity.[1][2] He has also enjoyed a solo career, published written works, and flirted briefly with acting and vinification, as well as opened blues-themed restaurants in Alexandria, VA and Hawaii. – Wikipedia

Wednesday 10pm: Rock Talk with Dominic Forbes

Joseph Thomas Elliott, Jr. (born 1 August 1959) is an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known as the lead singer of the English rock band Def Leppard. He has also been the lead singer of the David Bowie tribute band the Cybernauts and the Mott the Hoople cover band Down ‘n’ Outz. He is one of the two original members of Def Leppard and one of the three to perform on every Def Leppard album. Elliott is known for his distinctive wide ranging, raspy voice.

Joseph Thomas Elliott Jr. was born in Sheffield and was educated at King Edward VII School. Elliott met Pete Willis; a member of a local band called Atomic Mass; in November 1977 after missing a bus. Upon finding out that they were both musicians, Elliott met the rest of the Atomic Mass members. The band spent hours talking and listening to records in Elliott’s bedroom. Elliott tried out as a guitarist and, though the band had not heard Elliott sing, they were impressed by “his attitude and his ideas about being in a band” and he became the band’s vocalist instead. The other members also took Elliott’s suggestion to change their name to “Deaf Leopard.” Elliott had invented the name for the band in youth. Tony Kenning suggested they change the band name to “Def Leppard” to distinguish them from contemporary punk bands like The Flying Lizards and Boomtown Rats. The band claims that any apparent similarity of the name Led Zeppelin to Def Leppard was unintentional. Elliott soon became an integral part of the band while also contributing his songwriting skills.

As a songwriter, Elliott has drawn from his eclectic tastes in music (ranging from pop-rock to folk) as sources of inspiration. He has noted that the lyrics to Def Leppard’s music are rarely personal; they are meant to be easily accessible to the listener. He also plays guitar and drums as well as piano and electronic keyboard.

Elliott currently hosts a radio show on Planet Rock radio on Saturday nights. – Wikipedia

Wednesday 10pm: Rock Talk with Dominic Forbes

John Roy Anderson (born 25 October 1944), known professionally as Jon Anderson, is a British-American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known as the lead singer of the progressive rock band Yes, which he co-founded in 1968 with bassist Chris Squire. He was a member of the band across three tenures between 1968 and 2008. Anderson is a current member of Yes Featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, Rick Wakeman.

Anderson is also noted for his solo career and collaborations with other artists, including Vangelis as Jon and Vangelis, Roine Stolt as Anderson/Stolt, and Jean-Luc Ponty as AndersonPonty Band. He has also appeared on albums by King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Iron Butterfly and Mike Oldfield.

Anderson released his first solo album, Olias of Sunhillow (1976), while still a member of Yes in 1976, and subsequently released 13 more albums as a solo artist. Anderson became an American citizen in 2009. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes. – Wikipedia

Wednesday 10pm: Rock Talk with Dominic Forbes

This week on Rock Talk as discussion and music from Lita Ford.

Lita Rossana Ford (born 19 September 1958) is an English-born American rock guitarist, actress, vocalist and songwriter who was the lead guitarist for the Runaways in the late 1970s before embarking on a solo career in the 1980s.