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The People's Songs
How important is music to football and to your team? Stuart Maconie wants your views
Music Played
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience Crosstown Traffic
The Jimi Hendrix Collection, Universal
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Prince Rock And Roll Love Affair
(CD Single), NPG Records
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New Order & England World Cup Squad World In Motion
Snap It Up! (Various Artists), CBS
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Manic Street Preachers Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
(CD Single), Columbia, 13
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Band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas?
That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
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Jeff Lynne Mercy Mercy
Long Wave, Frontiers Records, 4
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The Miracles The Tears Of A Clown
Dancing In The Street (Various Artis, Universal Music Tv
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Aloe Blacc I Need A Dollar
Good Things, Stones Throw Records, 1
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Alma Cogan Must Be Santa
The A-Z Of Alma, 1960 EMI Records, 31
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Kylie Minogue On A Night Like This (The Abbey Road Sessions)
(CD Single), Parlophone, 2
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Chris Rea Driving Home For Christmas
(Single), WEA, 1
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Spice Girls 2 Become 1
Mixed Emotions III (Various Artists), Polygram Tv
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The Beatles Within You Without You
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Apple, 8
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Jools Holland & Rumer Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive
The Golden Age Of Song, Rhino
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Andy Burrows Light The Night
(CD Single), Play It Again Sam UK, 1
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Boney M. Mary's Boy Child
That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
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The Script Six Degrees Of Separation
#3, Sony
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David Bowie Space Oddity
Space Oddity, RCA
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
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Shakin' Stevens Merry Christmas Everyone
That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
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Mud Lonely This Christmas
That's Christmas (Various Artists), EMI
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Cliff Richard Wired For Sound
Cliff Richard - Private Collection, EMI
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Oasis Live Forever
Live Forever (Various Artists), Virgin
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Pause for Thought
From Nick Baines, the Bishop of Bradford.
I was on a train, my head buried in emails and papers, when I heard the voice of the 'train manager': "This service will shortly call at New York." Great, you might think. except that I was on my way from Bradford to London... and the last time I did the trip, we didn't cross the Atlantic. Eventually I worked out she was actually saying 'Newark'... the place in the Midlands.
Funnily enough, this reminded me of when my kids were young and we were in the car going on holiday. My youngest son asked - having watched Star Trek the day before - "Why do they keep saying, 'Beat me up, Scottie'?" Oh, how we larfed...
But, it's actually easy to mishear stuff, isn't it? We do it all the time - often without even realising it. I guess our mind expects something and doesn't process what really comes out. A bit like hearing the choir singing "While shepherds watched their socks by night" or the Kop singing "You'll never work alone".
Mishearing is just something we all do. The people at the back of the crowd at Jesus's 'Sermon on the Mount' in Monty Python's Life of Brian hear him say: "Blessed are the cheesemakers" - and people still don't hear what he actually said about an upside down way of seeing the world.
So, I wonder what we make of the 2011 Census figures issued yesterday - especially the news that the number of people claiming to be Christian has dropped considerably since 2001? Well, you can hear the statistic and think Christianity is on the way out... or you can ask yourself why Christians continue to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, clothe the poor - and do all this without fuss or fame across the nation. Yes, others do it, too; but, it is often the churches that organise it consistently. Like InnChurches in Bradford providing shelter and food to hundreds of homeless people through the winter months.
So, when I hear the stats, I dig deeper into the story. As the Rolling Stones put it, 'Sticky Figures' can be misheard.
Didn't they?
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BBC Radio 2Wed 12 Dec 2012 06:30 BBC Radio 2
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