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Elizabeth Alker and Everything We Do is Music

Guy chats to Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, about the Beatles, drone and Terry the terrible terrier.

Guy chats to Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, about the Beatles, drone, Charlie Parker and Terry the terrible terrier.

There's classic music from Deep Purple, Tina Turner and Mose Allison plus new music from the likes of Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Peter Gabriel and LYR.

All this and the mysterious Beckapedia.

Produced in Salford by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Deep Purple

    Hush

    • EMI.
  • David Bowie

    Ashes to Ashes

    • EMI.
  • Danny Kaye

    Inchworm

    • Primo.
  • The Who

    The Seeker

    • Reaction Records.
  • Pink Floyd

    Breathe (In The Air)

    • EMI.
  • Bon Iver

    Everything Is Peaceful Love

    • Jagjaguwar.
  • Cheetah & Nia Archives

    Get Loose

    • Up Ya Archives.
  • Heavy Salad

    Memories

    • Kycker.
  • Nick Drake

    Northern Sky

    • Island.
  • Ike & Tina Turner

    Nutbush City Limits

    • EMI.
  • Family

    My Friend The Sun

    • United Artists Records.
  • Neon Neon

    Raquel

    • Lex Records Limited.
  • Bonnie “Prince” Billy

    They Keep Trying To Find You

    • Domino Records.
  • Peter Gabriel

    Been Undone (Dark-Side Mix)

    • Been Undone (Dark-Side Mix).
    • Real World Productions.
    • 1.
  • The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    Unsquare Dance

    • CBS.
  • The Beatles

    Tomorrow Never Knows

    • Parlophone.
  • Charlie Parker

    Hot House (Live)

    • Savoy.
  • The Chameleons

    Tears

    • Geffen.
  • Lauryn Hill

    Ex-Factor

    • Columbia/Ruff House.
  • David O’Dowda

    Torch Light

    • Extreme Music.
  • Wolf Alice

    White Horses

    • Columbia.
  • LYR

    Blah! Blah! Blah!

    • Real World Records.
  • Nico

    I'll Keep It With Mine

    • Polydor.
  • Ivor Cutler

    Bicarbonate of Chicken

    • virgin.
  • Radiohead

    How To Disappear Completely

    • Parlophone.
  • The Velvet Underground

    Venus In Furs

    • VERVE.
  • Mose Allison

    Young Man's Blues

  • Hiroshi Yoshimura

    SLEEP

    • Light in the Attic.
  • Jim O’Rourke

    Prelude to 110 or 220 / Women of the World

    • Domino.
  • Hoagy Carmichael

    Winter Moon

    • Blue Note Records.

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