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A searchable database for BBC Radio 6 Music – Radcliffe and Maconie's The Chain, officially the longest listener-generated thematically linked sequence of musically based items on the radio.

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4635. Wire – Map Ref. 41°N 93°W

Wire

Suggested by Paul in Northampton

A wire link…

 

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4634. Peter Gabriel – And Through The Wire

Peter Gabriel

Suggested by Tony in central London

A tightrope is also known as a high wire, to wire…

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4633. Janelle Monae – Tightrope

Janelle Monae

Suggested by Andy in Epsom

From Metropolis to “the funkiest horn section in Metropolis” which is a line from Tightrope…

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4632. Kraftwerk – Metropolis

Kraftwerk

Suggested by Rob in Steeple Aston

From Florence & the Machine to the album The Man-Machine, and this track from it…

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4631. Florence & the Machine – Kiss With A Fist

Florence & The Machine

Suggested by Paul in Leeds

Shane MacGowan used to be in The Pogues who took their name from an Irish phrase, the pogue bit of which is Gaelic for ‘kiss’…

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4630. Shane MacGowan and the Popes – That Woman’s Got Me Drinking

Shane MacGowan, Shange MacGowan and the Popes

Suggested by Alec in South Cambridgeshire

Kirsty MacColl duetted on the Pogues’ Fairy Tale of New York with Shane MacGowan…

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