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#sundayafternoon #deadhead #nowplaying

Cannot beat time in the garden 🪴 with great tunes and a glass of red 🍷
The Complete Sunshine Daydream Concert: Veneta, OR 8/27/72 (Live) by Grateful Dead on Apple Music
Album · 2013 · 21 Songs
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#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge

✨ Day 16 ✨ Electric Light Orchestra: 'Can't Get it Out Of My Head'

From 1974's 'Eldorado' and of course an arrangement by Jeff Lynne...

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February 16, 2026 at 3:58 AM
February 15, 2026 at 4:12 AM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen...
February 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM
#Last4Albums #MusicSky

Don't let Sinatra fool you...this is not a love song.
February 14, 2026 at 9:21 AM
#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #JazzSky

No snow ❄️ yet but it’s getting colder -7 wind chill 🥶 Coffee ☕️ & bagel 🥯 time

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Winter Jazz ❄ by Tom Stewart on Apple Music
Playlist · 300 Songs
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February 14, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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✨ Day 14 ✨ 'The Last Time' - The Andrew Oldham Orchestra

You know. Someone should really so something with that riff...just a thought. Arrangements by David Whittaker...

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February 14, 2026 at 4:29 AM
#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge

✨ Day 13 ✨ Beck - 'Paper Tiger'

From my favourite Beck album, 'Sea Change', this is a cracking song and this version from the Jimmy Kimmel show is fantastic. String arrangement by David Campbell...

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February 13, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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✨ Day 12 ✨ T. Rex - 'Cosmic Warrior'

From the fantastic 'Electric Warrior' this is one of my favourite Marc Bolan songs and features the production and arrangements of Tony Visconti...

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February 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky

Wind chill at -7c 🥶 at the moment with a Snow/Ice weather warning for later today. So the fire is on, and the dog is up and around. 'Animals' was released in the US 49yrs ago today...my favourite Floyd album...and playing ☕

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February 12, 2026 at 4:09 AM
#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky

Wake up to a 24hr Yellow Warning for Rain from the Met Office. This is why working from home was invented. Keeping the gloom out the kitchen with the debut record from Erykah Badu which turns 29 today ☕ 🥞

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February 11, 2026 at 4:31 AM
#OrchestralManoeuvres #MusicChallenge

✨ Day 11 ✨ The Last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next To Me

From Alex Turners side-project that's so much more. The orchestration by Owen Pallett really make this project stand out from the crowd...

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February 11, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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Grainy spring training videos commence.

Slaten in the foreground, Suarez in the middle, Early in the back, throwing side sessions
February 10, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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First day of pitchers and catchers reporting and Whitlock, Weissert and Moran are throwing live BP.

Chapman, Gray, Crawford, Early, Suarez, Slaten, Bello among those throwing side sessions today
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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✨ Day 10 ✨ King Crimson - 'Starless'

With Fripp on the Mellotron (strings) and an uncredited cello player. This is the epics epic, a song you can lose yourself in.

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February 10, 2026 at 4:31 AM
#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSkyBreakfast #Jellyfish

This morning's soundtrack is by the peerless Jellyfish. Their wonderful second, and final, studio album... Spilt Milk... is 33 today ☕ 🍌

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February 9, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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✨ Day 9 ✨ R.E.M. - 'Nightswimming'

My second record to feature the work of John Paul Jones, with one more to come...

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February 9, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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✨ Day 8 ✨ Starless - 'Ailein Duinn'

The brainchild of Paul McGeechan (Friends Again, Love & Money) a huge orchestral project feat. a star-studded cast of Scotland's best. There aren't enough characters to describe this...

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February 8, 2026 at 4:23 AM
#MusicSky #Television

Another sad day 🥲 Play Television loud today…for Fred RIP

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Fred Smith, Bassist for Television, Dead at 77
Fred Smith, bass player for rock band Television, has died at the age of 77.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:53 AM
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✨ Day 7 ✨ Led Zeppelin - 'The Rain Song'

The record relied on Jimmy Page and especially John Paul Jones on the Mellotron to create the arrangement and the sound of strings...this version features the London Metropolitan Orchestra

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February 7, 2026 at 4:20 AM
#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky

Another early alarm this morning so it's just me and the dog. But this morning's soundtrack is so good. The astonishing debut from De La Soul is 37 today 🫖 🥣

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February 6, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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✨ Day 6 ✨ UNKLE - 'Lonely Soul (feat. Richard Ashcroft)'

From the 1998 debut on Mo' Wax. With strings by The London Session Orchestra...

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February 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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✨ Day 5 ✨ Frankie Goes to Hollywood - 'Two Tribes (Carnage Mix)'

This is the string heavy mix and all overseen by Mr Trevor Horn. The voice of Patrick Allen..." When you hear the air attack warning"

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February 5, 2026 at 4:35 AM
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✨ Day 4 ✨ Mercury Rev - 'The Dark is Rising'

Mercury Rev were made for this challenge. Big, bold dramatic songs with 'Deserter Songs' packed with them. This is from the follow-up, 'All Is Dream' and tops the lot...

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February 4, 2026 at 4:10 AM
#BreakfastSoundtrack #NowPlaying #MusicSky

Early start this morning & it's The Cure as my soundtrack ☕ 🥞 It's Lol Tolhurst's birthday today, so I'm digging out Pornography as I shuffle round the kitchen. I'm of an age where he's still in The Cure…and still on drums!

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Pornography (Remastered) by The Cure on Apple Music
Album · 1982 · 8 Songs
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February 3, 2026 at 4:27 AM