(ONCE I HAD A) SECRET LOVE by ENGLEBERT HUMPERDINK. Story and artwork by Chris Rees.
At some point the peg began to sing, and the song it sang was (Once I Had A) Secret Love.
WHAT I AM by TEX, DON & CHARLIE. Story by Bernhard Sayer.
The song, like him, is drenched in space. The unhurried chords set the scene perfectly. Space.
RACING IN THE STREET by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. Story by Annette Trevitt.
Every summer he drove across the country in a clapped-out vehicle to see us kids, but he always went back. Back to where he had a stool at the bar and a nickname he loved: the Professor.
GRACE by JEFF BUCKLEY. Story by Chloe Ellen.
Dad stands at the bowser. I sit in the passenger seat. The thrum of petrol is like a bassline.
ROCKET MAN by ELTON JOHN. Story by Lauren O’Hagan.
Music is always so much more than just music. It’s quite simply everything.
HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE by THE BEATLES. Story by Darren ‘Smokie’ Dawson.
My Beatles education commenced, early before I was born
THESE EYES by THE GUESS WHO. Story by Bill Arnott.
Although mine was a record and dad’s was a tape, there was no mistaking a shift in the axis that staked our two worlds.
THE NUT BROWN MAIDEN, a traditional Scottish song. Story by Alex Barr.
I sometimes think of my father as a cold, bleak Icelandic landscape, and his songs as those hot springs that bubble up from unknown depths.
SERENADE by MARIO LANZA. Story by Hugh Jones
Some guests on Desert Island Discs are more interesting than others, and some are not what you would expect at all - Robert Plant, for example.
SOUTHBOUND by THIN LIZZY. Story by Lauren O’Hagan.
At that time, I didn’t own a record player of my own, so we stopped at my grandparents’ house to pick up my dad’s old one from the attic: a Ferguson 3057. We carted it home and my dad installed it in my bedroom.