This week on ‘Built For Speed’ we pay tribute to one of rock’s greatest talents and survivors, Neil Young who turned 70 on Monday. We’ll hear some classic tracks from Neil as well as favourites from Australian artists and some selections from Rock’n’roll Hall of Fame nominee Cheap Trick. We also take a look at two new cinema releases, Australian
Read moreNearly half a century on and the Canadian is still producing fantastic popular original music. This Saturday on RGG we revisit his catalogue of tunes and hear a plethora of alternative versions of some of his songs performed by other artists. Songs such as Lotta Love, Powderfinger, Love is a Rose, Winterlong, After the Gold Rush, Pocohontas, Long May You
Read moreRGG is a program which utilises a different theme each week to develop a special “different” show with music from all eras each Saturday morning between 10am and noon. This week Radio Ga Ga does it’s little thing by finding music with a tenuous (dictionary definition: thin in consistency; rare or rarefied) link to the great man, Elvis. The music featured will be either specifically about
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 21st SEPTEMBER 2012 1. THE VACCINES – Teenage icon 2. AGAINST ME – White people for peace. 3. BAND OF HORSES – Feud. 4. RED KROSS – Meet Frankenstein. 5. THE SMITHS – There is a light that never goes out. 6. WHEATUS – Teenage dirt bag. 7. BILLY BRAGG – Waiting for the great leap
Read moreThis week on Built For Speed we step away from the art house reviews and provide our consumer guide to the school holiday movies: Madagascar 3, Diary of a wimpy kid and (for gore loving teens) Bait 3D. It’s also time for a Built For Speed classic album and this month it’s Neil Young’s 1970 masterpiece After the Goldrush. There’s
Read moreThis Saturday from 10am hear 2 hours of songs that shaped the world through the political messages contained within them. Midnight Oil, John Lennon, The Clash, Bob Marley, Dire Straits, Tracy Chapman, Neil Young, Buffalo Springfield, Toots & The Maytals, UB40 and The Scorpions are among the acts that will feature this week and Lucy & Mark will be
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