The Chain

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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4607. Hüsker Dü – Could You Be The One?

Husker Du

Suggested by Gez in Portsmouth

Björk has an umlaut in her name, so to a band with two umlauts in their name…

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4606. Bjork – Hyperballad

Bjork

Suggested by Francis in Littleborough

If you could travel faster than starlight you could travel through hyperspace*, so from hyperspace to hyperballad…

* Science fiction, not science fact

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4605. Muse – Starlight

Muse

Suggested by Richard in Hamble

From limelight to starlight…

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4604. Rush – Limelight

Rush

Suggested by Kieran in the Hague

From Saturday Night at the Movies to Moving Pictures, the album by Rush, on which this track appears…

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4603. The Drifters – Saturday Night at the Movies

The Drifters

Suggested by Edward in Bath

A Saturday link…

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4602. Mott the Hoople – Saturday Gigs

Mott The Hoople

Suggested by Andrea in Weardale, County Durham

The lead guitarist on Hang On To Yourself was Mick Ronson, who later went on to play on this track…

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