Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 87 – The To Remember Who I Am edition by Raquel Pinheiro

Alicia Edelweiss

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 87 –  The To Remember Who I Am edition airs Monday 3 November 2025, 3-4pm (London time) and repeats Monday November 10 on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This edition title is both a reminder to myself and a words play with Tracy Vandal & John Mercy’s song.

Lammergeiers’ ITB is the band’s – a little hard to spot –  version of Suede’s Introducing The Band. 

Alicia Edelweiss is a suggestion by Bettina Korn and Ruth Lyon a suggestion by Martin Swarbrick. Their respective songs, Leonie and November were picked by me.

My beloved Sugar are back with a new single, House of Dead Memories, their first in thirty years. There’s also
Tracy Vandal & John Mercy with Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand and much more.

Tracklist:
01: Lammergeiers – ITB
02: Alicia Edelweiss – Leonie
03: Ruth Lyon – November
04: Sugar – House of Dead Memories
05: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – Dead End Pools
06: Guided By Voices – (You Can’t Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda
07: Miranda – I Wish
09: Brian Bilston and The Catenary Wires – Might Have, Might Not Have
10: Oliver Sim – Telephone Games
11: Bela Noia – Não quero mais
12: AUA Drop – Painkiller No. 2
13: Leatherette – Hey There (x)
14: Tracy Vandal & John Mercy – To Remember Who You Were feat Alex Kapranos
15: Cass McCombs – Missionary Bell

All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition by Raquel Pinheiro now @ mixcloud

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition can now be listened to on mixcloud. Of Love & Loss is a self-explanatory title. Originally, that was not how this edition was going to be called. You can read about the programme here.

Amazing Songs & Other Delights airs 3-4pm (London time) and has new editions every first and third Monday of each month, respective repeats on second and fourth Monday of each month on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Tracklist:
01: The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
02: A 90s new man called Stan –
Disco Dystopian Blues
03: The Auteurs – Show Girl
04: Bettina Korn – Annie’s Song (John Denver cover)
05: Chimehours – Underneath The Earth
06: The Mercury Rev – Goodness on a Highway
07: Maitland – Einstein-Rosen Bridge 
08: Ricardo Reis Soares – Qualquer Coisa
09: Suede – Daddy’s Speeding
10: The Vinegar Tasters – Smokestack
11: The Radio Field – It’s Alright
12: Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty
13: Thee Headcoatees – You’re Gonna Lose That Boy
14: Lour – Outro Lado
15: Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum –
In lichem fol beloften(feat. Tsead Bruinja)
16: Mark Eitzel – The Last Ten Years

All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé Radio mixcloud Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition by Raquel Pinheiro

Calcedonio Reina – Amore e morte, 1881

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 85 – The Of Love & Loss edition airs Monday October 6, and repeats Monday October 13, 3-4pm (London time) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Of Love & Loss is a self-explanatory title. Originally, that was not how this edition was going to be called. Maybe it would have been called The Mild Ones edition. The Mild Ones are a wonderful Suede fan group of which I am part of, and there are several Mild Ones on this edition – Mark Robin White (A 90s new man called Stan), Bettina Korn, James Mediocre (The Vinegar Tasters), Simon Gilbert (Suede).

Or maybe it was going to be called something else. Bettina’s cover of John Denver’s Annie’s Song was certain, regardless of the name thos edition of Amazing Songs & Other Delights would have. Monday, September 30, Ian Pye posted Suede’s Daddy’s Speeding to the group.

I was reminded of how great the song is, and listened to it a few times, because the song has a very interesting musical change, and selected as one of my International Music Day for The Polymath.

A couple of days latter I was listening to it on repeat for very different reasons. Curve balls. Life, love, loss. The other songs were already in though for this edition, or came as soundscape of feelings and emotions.

Most of the songs aren’t necessarily about love. Or loss. They aren’t all gloomy, far from it. Daddy’s Spending does sits at the center, with its music, vocal, words, highly charged emotional landscape, but the songs before and after offer a full picture of a week filled with changes.

To lighten things a bit, in the spirit of Wally, can you spot Bernard Butler, (other than in Suede)?…

Tracklist:
01: The Handsome Family – Far From Any Road
02: A 90s new man called Stan –
Disco Dystopian Blues
03: The Auteurs – Show Girl
04: Bettina Korn – Annie’s Song (John Denver cover)
05: Chimehours – Underneath The Earth
06: The Mercury Rev – Goodness on a Highway
07: Maitland – Einstein-Rosen Bridge 
08: Ricardo Reis Soares – Qualquer Coisa
09: Suede – Daddy’s Speeding
10: The Vinegar Tasters – Smokestack
11: The Radio Field – It’s Alright
12: Bill MacKay & Ryley Walker – Land of Plenty
13: Thee Headcoatees – You’re Gonna Lose That Boy
14: Lour – Outro Lado
15: Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum –
In lichem fol beloften(feat. Tsead Bruinja)
16: Mark Eitzel – The Last Ten Years

All previous shows on mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/ |Mondo Bizarre Magazine

International Music Day 2025 – My Song Choices

Euterpe the muse of Music and Lyric Poetry

Today is International Music Day. I selected three songs from different time periods and genres. Cantigas do Maio by José Afonso, Der Erlkönig by Franz Schubert, and my favourite song Will You Love Me Tomorrow sung by the Shirelles.

Cantigas do Maio is from the fifth album by Portuguese musician, composer, singer, songwriter 1971 album Cantigas do Maio. A beautiful song, in which the voice starts gentle, develops a frantic tone, then quiets, then rises again, and ends quiet.

Cantigas do Maio:
Eu fui ver a minha amada
Lá p’rós baixos dum jardim
Eu fui ver a minha amada
Lá p’rós baixos dum jardim
Dei-lhe uma rosa encarnada
Para se lembrar de mim
Dei-lhe uma rosa encarnada
Para se lembrar de mim

Eu fui ver o meu benzinho
Lá p’rós lados dum passal
Eu fui ver o meu benzinho
Lá p’rós lados dum passalFeatures
Dei-lhe o meu lenço de linho
Que é do mais fino bragal
Dei-lhe o meu lenço de linho
Que é do mais fino bragal

Minha mãe, quando eu morrer
Minha mãe, quando eu morrer
Ai, chore por quem muito amargou
Ai, chore por quem muito amargou
Para então dizer ao mundo
Para então dizer ao mundo
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou

Eu fui ver uma donzela
Numa barquinha a dormir
Eu fui ver uma donzela
Numa barquinha a dormir
Dei-lhe uma colcha de seda
Para nela se cobrir
Dei-lhe uma colcha de seda
Para nela se cobrir

Eu fui ver uma solteira
Numa salinha a fiar
Eu fui ver uma solteira
Numa salinha a fiar
Dei-lhe uma rosa vermelha
Para de mim se encantar
Dei-lhe uma rosa vermelha
Para de mim se encantar

Minha mãe, quando eu morrer
Minha mãe, quando eu morrer
Ai, chore por quem muito amargou
Ai, chore por quem muito amargou
Para então dizer ao mundo
Para então dizer ao mundo
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou

Eu fui ver a minha amada
Lá nos campos, eu fui ver
Eu fui ver a minha amada
Lá nos campos, eu fui ver
Dei-lhe uma rosa encarnada
Para de mim se prender
Dei-lhe uma rosa encarnada
Para de mim se prender

Verdes prados, verdes campos
Onde está minha paixão?
Verdes prados, verdes campos
Onde está minha paixão?
As andorinhas não param
Umas voltam, outras não
As andorinhas não param
Umas voltam, outras não

Minha mãe, quando eu morrer
Minha mãe, quando eu morrer
Ai, chore por quem muito amargou
Ai, chore por quem muito amargou
Para então dizer ao mundo
Para então dizer ao mundo
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou
Ai Deus m’o deu
Ai Deus m’o levou

My favourite song Will You Love Me Tomorrow, also known as Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin, first recorded by The Shirelles in 1960.

Will You Love Me Tomorrow:
Tonight you’re mine completely
You give your love so sweetly
Tonight the light of love is in your eyes
But will you love me tomorrow?
Is this a lasting treasure
Or just a moment’s pleasure?
Can I believe the magic of your sighs?
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Tonight with words unspoken
You say that I’m the only one
But will my heart be broken
When the night (when the night)
Meets the morning (meets the morning) sun?
I’d like to know that your love
Is a love I can be sure of
So tell me now, and I won’t ask again
Will you still love me tomorrow?
So tell me now, and I won’t ask again
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Will you still love me tomorrow?
Will you still love me?

And Der Erlkönig by Franz Schubert, with a ballade written by Johann Wolfgang in 1782. Here sung by baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by pianist Gerald Moore. Haunting, chilling, Dietrich sings the three voices, child, father, Erlkönig with deep emotion and such tonal variation it leaves you mesmerized. And the final line, In seinen Armen das Kind war tot (In your arms the child is lies dead) is arrowing.

Der Erlkönig:
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind;
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er fasst ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm.

Mein Sohn, was birgst du so bang dein Gesicht? –
Siehst, Vater, du den Erlkönig nicht?
Den Erlenkönig mit Kron’ und Schweif? –
Mein Sohn, es ist ein Nebelstreif. –

„Du liebes Kind, komm, geh mit mir!
Gar schöne Spiele spiel’ ich mit dir;
Manch’ bunte Blumen sind an dem Strand,
Meine Mutter hat manch gülden Gewand.“ –

Mein Vater, mein Vater, und hörest du nicht,
Was Erlenkönig mir leise verspricht? –
Sei ruhig, bleibe ruhig, mein Kind;
In dürren Blättern säuselt der Wind. –

„Willst, feiner Knabe, du mit mir gehn?
Meine Töchter sollen dich warten schön;
Meine Töchter führen den nächtlichen Reihn
Und wiegen und tanzen und singen dich ein.“ –

Mein Vater, mein Vater, und siehst du nicht dort
Erlkönigs Töchter am düstern Ort? –
Mein Sohn, mein Sohn, ich seh’ es genau:
Es scheinen die alten Weiden so grau. –

„Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schöne Gestalt;
Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch’ ich Gewalt.“ –
Mein Vater, mein Vater, jetzt fasst er mich an!
Erlkönig hat mir ein Leids getan! –

Dem Vater grauset’s; er reitet geschwind,
Er hält in Armen das ächzende Kind,
Erreicht den Hof mit Mühe und Not;
In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

More or my favourite songs can be read about here Amazing Songs & Other Delights #80 – The These Are a Few of My Favourite Songs edition and listened to here.

I have also written about this three songs plus Daddy’s Spending by Suede on The Polymath

Brett Anderson – Mayan Soul Map Synthesis – at The Polymath

Brett Anderson © Iorgis Matyassy

I’m sometimes asked what a Mayan Soul Map looks like, or what to expect from a reading that includes Mayan. I’m a member of The Mild Ones, a Suede fan community. Today, is Brett Anderson’s birthday, and I share a Mayan Soul Map Synthesis, exploring his Birth Kin, current cycle, Venus phase, and more on The Polymath’s site.

Here’s an excerpt of my Brett Anderson Mayan Soul Map Synthesis: “Brett’s birth essence holds a deep, crystalline clarity: the need to question, to refuse easy answers, and to stand as a voice of integrity for the collective. His life path is not solitary. Warrior at Crystal tone suggests that his strength is found in weaving himself into group purpose, holding vision within a wider band of seekers. Brett’s full Mayan Soul Map Synthesis can be read here.

untitled fragment – Raquel Pinheiro, 2025

Amazing Songs & Other Delights #83 – The 4th anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers @ mixcloud

My 4th anniversary radio show is now available on mixcloud.

This year, the anniversary programme is a little different than usual. Trials and tribulations didn’t allow for the several costumary purpose composed pieces, aside from mine and Francisco Silva’s Lucid One.

The lyrics of Lucid One have my poem 80 as starting point, adapted to song by Francisco’s chatgpt, then, on a second round of singing the song, by him. It was a very interesting creative experience. Francisco and I also both this very different impromptu versions of Suede’s The Asphalt World.

You can read more about the show, the Astro Travellers, my “band” contributions and it’s creative process here. The lyrics of Lucid One and poem 80 are below, along with the show tracklist.

Lucid One lyrics
Sleepless nights, stuck in motion
Elevators fade, no clear emotion
Crex crex crex — the artach calls
Lucid tiles in echo halls

The megaphone speaks, louder than books
Slogans win where no one looks
Moral weight too hard to lift
We float inside this aimless drift

The empire of futility
Masqueraded as ability
Symbols fail, the noise gets loud
We vanish slowly in the crowd

Resperidone, the new tea brew

Quiet minds in static view
Fork in the road, by the sea we stand
Bathymetry traced in soul and sand

Invisible paths, the labyrinth sings
We mistook noise for gravity’s rings
You want the house still, free of harm
But the woman bangs the pots — her charm

The empire of futility
Attired in nobility
Mirrors turn, the spiral grows
Stagnant waters, no one knows
(Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro)

poem 80
sleepless nights,
stuck
perpetual movement
fading through the elevator
crex crex crex crex makes the artach
hearth and home
lucid tiles echoing
the megaphone is easier than read serious books
slogans are easier than moral inventory.
the empire of futility
disguised as art, intellectualism
the sound mirrors, a spiral
a stagnant pool of nothingness
resperidone, the new chamomile
there’s a road with a fork
for you and me by the sea
bathymetry of the soul
invisible pathways
labyrinth, the song
mistaken noise for gravity
symbols for substance
brought us here
you want the house quiet
but a woman bangs the pots
monks don’t worry about money
terror dreams, rage
somatic overload
the lucid one in a house of somnambulists
fog can’t be fought, what it erases
is watched
don’t go back to sleep
the messiness of desire
recycle, renewal, redemption
like a benediction
all the plants are watered
(Raquel Pinheiro)

Tracklist:
01: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By
02: Raquel Pinheiro – Loss
03: Pixies – Hey (Manuel Carvalho)
04: Sérgio Rocha – Seclusões (excerpt)
05: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
06: digei de bairro – MG B GT (pre-master)
07: Suki Waterhouse – Supersad (António Cunha)
08: Boxmonsters – Holligans
09: Francisco Silva – The Asphalt World (acoustic excerpt)
10: Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Raquel Pinheiro)
11: caroline – Tell Me I Never New That feat. Caroline Polachek (Paulo Navarro)
12: Raquel Pinheiro – The Asphalt World
13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace
14: Lyn Collins – Think (About It) (Matt Hutchison)
15: Ned Swarbrick – Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1)
16: João Diogo Zagalo – Lotar n.º 4
17: Boxmonsters – Car Crash
18: Raquel Pinheiro – December: Death
19: American Music Club – Why Don’t You Stay (Rui Pimenta)

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Amazing Songs & Other Delights #83 – The 4th anniversary edition by Raquel & The Astro Travellers @ Yé Yé radio , Monday 14th

Maren Devine – Flower Cake

My radio show Amazing Songs & Other Delights turned. The 4th anniversary edition airs Monday 14th, 3-4:10pm (gmt+1) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

This year, the anniversary programme is a little different than usual. Trials and tribulations didn’t allow for the several costumary purpose composed pieces, aside from mine and Francisco Silva’s Lucid One. The lyrics of Lucid One have my poem 80 as starting point, adapted to song by Francisco’s chatgpt, then, on a second round of singing the song, by him. It was a very interesting creative experience.

My Loss and December: Death, Sérgio Rocha’s Seclusões (excerpt), digei de bairro’s MG B GT (pre-master), Ned Swarbrick’s Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1), João Diogo Zagalo’ Lotar n.º 4 and Boxmonsters’ Holligans and Car Crash fall under that umbrella.

I picked two songs composed on purpose for previous anniversary editions. Mine and Francisco’s When Joe Came By, from the 1st anniversary edition, and Sweet Peace, by Bill Rivers and I, from last year’s anniversary show, here on Oh Bobby (Bill Rivers & Simon Wayward) version, from their album Swim The Universe.

There’s the usual assortment of songs, another round of surprises, picked for me by a few friends.

Because the songs represent me, because I may like them… Because…

Manuel Carvalho picked The Pixies’ Hey; António Cunha Suki Waterhouse’s Supersad, Paulo Navarro caroline’sTell Me I Never New That (feat. Caroline Polachek), Matt Hutchison Lyn Collins’ Think (About It) and Rui Pimenta Why Don’t You Stay by American Music Club.

As for both Francisco’s instrumental acoustic version of The Asphalt World and my soft instrumental electric stripped down version of The Asphalt World. Francisco thought it a odd choice for me to plays as far as Suede’s covers go, and sent me an impromptu short version of it.

At 0:55 it’s most likely the world’s shortest version of The Asphalt World. Mine runs past 10 minutes. It’s a one go, raw, unfiltered, no effects, aside from a little vibrato arm, and my micro jack amp distortion, no solos, also impromptu, played on a kitchen bench, purely for the joy of it version. Most of what seems effects, it’s my fretting fingers.

Lucid One lyrics
Sleepless nights, stuck in motion
Elevators fade, no clear emotion
Crex crex crex — the artach calls
Lucid tiles in echo halls

The megaphone speaks, louder than books
Slogans win where no one looks
Moral weight too hard to lift
We float inside this aimless drift

The empire of futility
Masqueraded as ability
Symbols fail, the noise gets loud
We vanish slowly in the crowd

Resperidone, the new tea brew

Quiet minds in static view
Fork in the road, by the sea we stand
Bathymetry traced in soul and sand

Invisible paths, the labyrinth sings
We mistook noise for gravity’s rings
You want the house still, free of harm
But the woman bangs the pots — her charm

The empire of futility
Attired in nobility
Mirrors turn, the spiral grows
Stagnant waters, no one knows
(Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro)

Poem #80
poem 80
sleepless nights,
stuck
perpetual movement
fading through the elevator
crex crex crex crex makes the artach
hearth and home
lucid tiles echoing
the megaphone is easier than read serious books
slogans are easier than moral inventory.
the empire of futility
disguised as art, intellectualism
the sound mirrors, a spiral
a stagnant pool of nothingness
resperidone, the new chamomile
there’s a road with a fork
for you and me by the sea
bathymetry of the soul
invisible pathways
labyrinth, the song
mistaken noise for gravity
symbols for substance
brought us here
you want the house quiet
but a woman bangs the pots
monks don’t worry about money
terror dreams, rage
somatic overload
the lucid one in a house of somnambulists
fog can’t be fought, what it erases
is watched
don’t go back to sleep
the messiness of desire
recycle, renewal, redemption
like a benediction
all the plants are watered
(Raquel Pinheiro)

Tracklist:
01: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – When Joe Came By
02: Raquel Pinheiro – Loss
03: Pixies – Hey (Manuel Carvalho)
04: Sérgio Rocha – Seclusões (excerpt)
05: Francisco Silva & Raquel Pinheiro – Lucid One
06: digei de bairro – MG B GT (pre-master)
07: Suki Waterhouse – Supersad (António Cunha)
08: Boxmonsters – Holligans
09: Francisco Silva – The Asphalt World (acoustic excerpt)
10: Talking Heads – Burning Down the House (Raquel Pinheiro)
11: caroline – Tell Me I Never New That feat. Caroline Polachek (Paulo Navarro)
12: Raquel Pinheiro – The Asphalt World
13: Oh Bobby – Sweet Peace – (*)
14: Lyn Collins – Think (About It) (Matt Hutchison)
15: Ned Swarbrick – Mr. O’Brien (mix 1.1)
16: João Diogo Zagalo – Lotar n.º 4
17: Boxmonsters – Car Crash
18: Raquel Pinheiro – December: Death
19: American Music Club – Why Don’t You Stay (Rui Pimenta)

All previous shows on mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/infoyeye/playlists/amazing-songs-other-delights|www.mixcloud.com/MondoBizarreMagazine

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition por Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro @ mixcloud

My Amazing Songs & Other Delights #74 – The Beatles edition done 50-50 with Bill Rivers is now on mixcloud.

You can read about the programme here.

Tracklist:
01 – The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Raquel)
02 – Dillard and Clark – Don’t Let Me Down (Bill)
03 – George Harrison – My Sweet Lord (Raquel)
04 – Junior Parker – Tomorrow Never Knows (2024 remastered version) (Bill)
05 – Bryan Ferry – Jealous Guy (Raquel)
06 – George Harrison – Try Some Buy Some (2024 mix) (Bill)
07 – Suede – A Day In The Life (MTV intro (Raquel)
08 – The Beatles – You Can’t Do That (Bill)l
09 – John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth (Bill)
10 – Paul McCartney – Waterfalls (Bill)
11 – George Harrison – Wah-Wah (2014
Remaster) (Raquel)
12 – The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Raquel)p
13 – The Carpenters – Ticket To Ride (Bill)
14 – The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Raquel)
15 – The Beatles – Yellow Submarine (Raquel)
16 – Robert Wyatt – Love (Bill)
17 – Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy (Bill)
18 – Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Raquel)

All previous shows on mixcloud: Yé Yé mixcloud | Mondo Bizarre Magazine mixcloud

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition by Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro @ Yé Yé Radio Monday 16

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition by Bill Rivers & Raquel Pinheiro airs Monday 16, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio:  yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Amazing Songs & Other Delights # 74 – The Beatles edition is, once more a collaborative programme between me and Bill Rivers. We both love The Beatles. As a child, around Christmas tv would show The Beatles films and I would be taken to see Yellow Submarine on the big screen. Bill and I picked Beatles songs, assorted covers , songs from solo fab four. You can see who picked out on the tracklist below the text. I love to do shows with Bill. He always comes up with songs, covers, I either didn’t knew or had forgotten.

The first record my parents to me dance to was a German Beatles compilation. The Beatles were mum and her sisters band. Like me, mum is partial to George (Harrison), having a special place in her heart for the by all, myself included, beloved Ringo. Bill’s favourite Beatle is also George. Paul comes second for Bill. No wonder there’s so much George being played on the show. 🙂 Solo George, Beatles George. While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles opens the show, While My Guitar Gently Weeps covered by Lucinda Williams closes it. I’ve been fascinated by Lucinda’s version since I heard it a few weeks ago.

Interestingly, my favourite Beatles song is Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) that was written by Lennon. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) wasn’t always by favourite Beatles song. As a child it would be any from the mentioned German compilation. Or from the first album. Or a few from Yellow Submarine that, for years, for me was only an animated film. Rubber Soul ended up become by favourite Beatles album. Bill’s favourite Beatles current album is Magical Mystery Tour.Why is George pretty much everyone favourite Beatle? I don’t know. I always loved George and Ringo. I’m the person who plays bass and forgets Paul McCartney plays bass. I see Paul as a songwriter, which he, of course, is.

Back to George. George brought many Innovations to The Beatles. He was always on the look out for new things. It was George’s idea of having Eric Clapton play the guitar solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps. George has the best solo album of the four Beatles, All Things Must Pass. There’s a great documentary about George as well, George Harrison: Living In The Material World.

Tracklist:
01 – The Beatles – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Raquel)
02 – Dillard and Clark – Don’t Let Me Down (Bill)
03 – George Harrison – My Sweet Lord (Raquel)
04 – Junior Parker – Tomorrow Never Knows (2024 remastered version) (Bill)
05 – Bryan Ferry – Jealous Guy (Raquel)
06 – George Harrison – Try Some Buy Some (2024 mix) (Bill)
07 – Suede – A Day In The Life (MTV intro (Raquel)
08 – The Beatles – You Can’t Do That (Bill)l
09 – John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth (Bill)
10 – Paul McCartney – Waterfalls (Bill)
11 – George Harrison – Wah-Wah (2014
Remaster) (Raquel)
12 – The Beatles – Octopus Garden (Raquel)p
13 – The Carpenters – Ticket To Ride (Bill)
14 – The Beatles – Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Raquel)
15 – The Beatles – Yellow Submarine (Raquel)
16 – Robert Wyatt – Love (Bill)
17 – Ringo Starr – It Don’t Come Easy (Bill)
18 – Lucinda Williams – While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Raquel)

Amazing Songs and Other Delights #5 – The Poetry edition by Raquel Pinheiro – repeat @ Yé Yé Radio, Monday 2nd

There’s a repeat of my 5th Amazing Songs & Other Delights #5 – The Poetry edition tomorrow, Monday 2nd, 3-4pm (gmt) on Yé Yé Radio: yeyeradio.com (or on the app).

Tracklist:
01 – Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis – Ode to a Nightingale (Keats poem)
02 – Suede – Heroine (Byron She Walks in beauty 1st lines)
03 – The Cranberries – Yeats Grave
04 – Amália Rodrigues – Barco Negro (David Mourão-Ferreira poem)
05 – Secos Molhados – Não não digas nada (Fernando Pessoa poem)
06 – Annie Lennox – Live With Me And Be My Love (Christopher Marlowe poem)
07 – The Waterboys – Stolen Child (Yeats poem)
08 – Bob Dylan – On the Road Again (Bob Dylan poem)
09 – Radio Bukowski – The Genius of The Crowd (Charles Bukowski poem)
10 – Carla Bruni – If You Were Coming In The Fall (Emily Dickinson poem)
11 – Rufus Wainwright – When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes (William Shakespeare, Sonnet 29th)
12 – Fagner – Fanatismo (Florbela Espanca poem)
13 – Ralph Schuckett and Richard Butler – Alabama song (Bertolt Brecht poem, Kurt Weill music)
14 – Patti Smith – Changing of the Guards (Bob Dylan cover and poem)
15 – Phil Ochs – The Bell (Edgar Allan Poe poem)
16 – Quilapayun – Complainte de Pablo Neruda
17 – The Smiths – Cemetery Gates (Keats, Yeats, Wilde came to play)

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