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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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4418. Dexys Midnight Runners – Tell Me When My Light Turns Green

Dexys Midnight Runners

Suggested by Reg in Swindon

Concrete and Clay was covered by Kevin Rowland of Dexys Midnight Runners, so…

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4417. Unit 4 + 2 – Concrete and Clay

Unit 4 + 2

Suggested by Morgan in St Albans

Muhammad Ali’s original name was Cassius Clay, so…

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4416. Faithless – Muhammad Ali

Faithless

Suggested by Carrie in Bristol

Miriam Makeba played at the famous boxing match the Rumble in the Jungle which was fought by George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, so…

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4415. Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata

Miriam Makeba

Suggested by Paul from somewhere in Manchester

Johannesburg was the birthplace of Miriam Makeba, so…

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4414. Gil Scott Heron – Johannesburg

Gil Scott Heron

Suggested by Craig in Tooting

I.O.U. is sampled on Girl by Jamie XX. Jamie XX has worked with Gil Scott Heron, so…

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4413. Freeez – I.O.U.

Freeez

Suggested by Jez in Alverstoke

From Enz, a word that’s misspelt and ending in z, to Freeez…

Bonus link: from I Got You to the album Gonna Get You by Freeez, which contains this track…

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