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This Week's Guest:
Tracey Emin

Sunday 28 November
Repeated
Friday 3 December 
Tracey's  Choice

                                          Photo by Graham Good

Sue Lawley's castaway this week is the artist Tracey Emin.

Tracey Emin is one of the most successful and controversial artists to emerge during the 1990s, her work was championed early on by influential art dealer Jay Jopling and later by the collector Charles Saatchi. Her work is highly autobiographical and confessional - she is a talented drawer and painter, but has attracted the most attention for her art installations - including her tent, Everyone I have ever slept with  and the Turner Prize-nominated My Bed. Her art is adored and condemned in equal measure - but wherever she exhibits she attracts queues and has a room at Tate Britain dedicated to her work.

She was brought up in Margate and she has recently finished a film, Top Spot, which reflects her own experiences.
 
 

1.Riding for a Fall
Performer John Holt
Composer Townsend/Waller
CD Title Pledging my Love
Track LP side 1
Label Trojan
Rec No: TBL 184
 
2.Good Vibrations
Performer Beach Boys
Composer Mike Love, Brian Wilson
Publisher Capitol records
CD Title Hits of 1966
Track 9
Label Premier
Rec No:CDGH 1966
 
3.I feel Love
Performer Donna Summer
Composer D Summer/G Moroder/P Bell
Publisher Casablanca Records
CD Title Classic Donna Summer
Track CD2 trk 3
Label Mercury
Rec No:542 228-2
 
4.Should I stay or should I go
Performer The Clash
Composer The Clash
CD Title Now 19
Track Cd1 trk 1
Label NOW
Rec No:CDNOW 19
 
5.Chirpie Chirpie Cheep Cheep
Performer Middle of the Road
Composer Stott
Publisher CMC Records
CD Title Very Best of Middle of the Road
Track 1
Label Disky
Rec No:51 646802
 
6.Burning Love
Performer Elvis Presley
Composer Dennis Linde
Publisher EMI Blackwood Music
CD Title A Life in Music
Track 10
Label RCA
Rec No:74321 49286 2
 
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Composer Gamble/Huff
Publisher Charly
CD Title Now that We Found Love
Track 11
Label Charly
Rec No: Snap 178cd
 
8.Young Americans
Performer David Bowie
Composer David Bowie
Publisher Jones Music
CD Title Best of David Bowie
Track 15
Label EMI
Rec No:5398212
 
Record: Young Americans
Book     Spinoza: Ethics by G H R Parkinson
Luxury:  A pen which would never run out
 
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