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Katie Puckrik celebrates the lush, millionaire’s make-out music of the '70s and '80s, with Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, Hall and Oates among its blue chip practitioners.

The luxury pop-soul soundtrack to your imaginary millionaire lifestyle. Katie Puckrik unabashedly celebrates the classic smooth rock of the '70s and '80s; featuring the likes of Steely Dan, the Doobie Brothers, Hall and Oates and Robert Palmer. The sounds are escapist, soul-inflected, studio musician-injected, and burnished to a high sheen with massed harmonies and a reckless deployment of saxophones and shimmering chimes. No longer derided as yuppie cheese, Yacht Rock is enjoying a reappraisal by a new generation of music lovers inspired by the genre’s sonic sophistication.

1 hour, 57 minutes

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Sat 8 Jun 2019 02:00
BBC Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Steely Dan

    Peg

    • ABC.

  • Starbuck

    Moonlight Feels Right

    • United Artists.

  • Zoot Woman

    Jessie

    • Wall of Sound.

  • Joni Mitchell

    The Hissing of Summer Lawns

    • Asylum.

  • The Doobie Brothers

    What A Fool Believes

    • Warner Bros.

  • Todd Rundgren

    Can We Still Be Friends

    • Bearsville.

  • Feist

    Inside and Out

    • Cherry Tree Interscope.

  • Robert Palmer

    Every Kinda People

    • Island.

  • Scritti Politti

    The Boom Boom Bap

    • Rough Trade.

  • Crosby, Stills & Nash

    Just A Song Before I Go

    • Atlantic.

  • Boz Scaggs

    Lowdown

    • Columbia.

  • Toto

    Georgy Porgy

    • Columbia.

  • Carly Simon

    You Belong to Me

    • Elektra.

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    When the Morning Comes

    • RCA.

  • Gerry Rafferty

    Baker Street

    • United Artists.

  • The Duckworth Lewis Method

    Out in the Middle

    • Divine Comedy Records.

  • Sanford & Townsend

    Smoke from a Distant Fire

    • Warners.

  • Quincy Jones and the Brothers Johnson

    Is it Love that we're Missing?

    • Capitol.

  • Dave Mason

    We Just Disagree

    • Columbia.

  • Steve Miller Band

    Fly Like an Eagle

    • Capitol.

  • Seals & Crofts

    Castles in the Sand

    • Warners.

  • Duran Duran

    Rio

    • EMI.

  • Rilo Kiley

    Dreamworld

    • Warners.

  • The Beach Boys

    Sail on Sailor

    • Brother Reprise.

  • The Internet

    Don'tcha

    • Odd Future Records.

  • Christopher Cross

    Sailing

    • Warners.

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