Desert Island Discs

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Brian Prunty

 

No.....sorry.....

 

Professor Brian Cox:

 

 

 

 

Choices

 

 

1.

David Bowie

 

Queen Bitch

 

Composer: Bowie

 

 

2.

Frank Sinatra

 

Come Fly with Me

 

Composer: Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen

 

 

3.

The Jam

 

Going Underground

 

Composer: Weller

 

 

4.

Duran Duran

 

Friends of Mine

 

Composer: Nick Rhodes, Andrew Taylor, Roger Taylor & Simon le Bon

 

 

5.

Dare

 

King of Spades

 

Composer: Darren Wharton

 

 

6.

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

 

Messages

 

Composer: Omd

 

 

7.

Clem Snide

 

Moment in the Sun

 

Composer: E.Barzelay

 

 

8.

Billy Joel

 

New York State of Mind

 

Composer: Joel

 

 

 

Book

Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson

 

Luxury item

A coffee machine

 

 

 

 

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/did/did_20111230-0945a.mp3

 

 

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7.

Clem Snide

 

Moment in the Sun

 

Composer: E.Barzelay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clem Snide?

 

 

 

 

 

Turns out to have taken their name from a William Burroughs novel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[The Boofon]

Fantastic choices of a top 10 with the notable exception of picking his old band in at number 5.

 

Saw him on the Jonathan Ross show last night as well. Mind boggling just how intelligent Brian is. Even explaining something in simple terms to Jonathan Ross had him and a a few others confused.