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This Week's Guest:
Jack Vettriano
Sunday 28 March
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Photo by Richard Kalina
Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Jack Vettriano.
Jack Vettriano is the painter of Britain’s most popular work of art. More than a million prints and posters have been sold of his work “The Singing Butler” since the original was bought for just over £4,500 in 1991. It shows a glamorous couple dancing on the beach while a maid and butler hold umbrellas over their heads to shield them from the rain. The original is due to go under the hammer, once again, in April and this time is expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Vettriano has enjoyed painting since he was in his twenties after a girlfriend gave him a set of watercolours. But he did not devote himself full time to art until the late 1980s when he was nearly forty. Since then, his rise has been meteoric and the public have clamoured both for his romantic, nostalgic views of a world gone by and for his far darker works that depict the sexual tensions between men and women.
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1. House of the Rising Sun
Performer The Animals
Composer Trad. arranged Price
Publisher EMI
CD Title The Animals - The Singles plus
Track 3
Label EMI
Rec No: CDP 746605 2
2. Shades of Scarlett Conquering
Performer Joni Mitchell
Composer Joni Mitchell
Publisher Elektra/Asylum
CD Title The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Track 5
Label Asylum
Rec No: K. 253018
3. Twist & Shout
Performer The Beatles
Composer Medley/Russell
Publisher EMI
CD Title Please, Please Me
Track 14
Label Parlophone
Rec No: CDP 7464352
4. Like a Rolling Stone
Performer Bob Dylan
Composer Bob Dylan
Publisher Warner Bros
CD Title Bob Dylan Greatest Hits
Track 5
Label CBS
Rec No: 450 882 2
5. Page 43
Performer Crosby and Nash
Composer Crosby
Publisher Time Warner
CD Title Crosby, Stills & Nash - CD 3.
Track 7
Label Atlantic
Rec No: 7567 82319-2
6. I'm your Man
Performer Leonard Cohen
Composer Leonard Cohen
Publisher Sony music
CD Title Essential Leonard Cohen
Track 16
Label Columbia
Rec No: 4979952
7. Last Resort
Performer Eagles
Composer Don Henley/Glen Frey
Publisher Elektra
CD Title Hotel California
Track 9
Label Asylum
Rec No: K. 253051
8. My father
Performer Judy Collins
Composer Judy Collins
Publisher Elektra
CD Title Colours of the Day
Track 9
Label Elektra
Rec No: 960681-2
Record: Like a Rolling Stone
Book: Helmut Newton's SUMO
Luxury: Triptych , May - June 1973 by Francis Bacon
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