29 April 2023

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## Show

Name
* The Vortex

Station
* Apple Radio

DD-MM-YYYY
* 29-04-2023

Comments
* Pete's 888th show ~ Saturday 7pm to 10pm,

## Tracklisting

***The Vortex 29/04/23***

* Hot Chocolate - Every 1's A Winner (12" US Disco Maxi Extended Version)
* Arrested Development - Man's Final Frontier *(From the album  3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of …)*
* Funkadelic - Can You Get To That *(From the album Maggot Brain)*
* Pink Floyd - Cirrus Minor *(From the Soundtrack From The Film “More”)*
* Brian Perkins - The Shipping Forecast *(From the album Guide Cats For The Blind)*
* UK Decay - For My Country (Peel Session 29/04/80) ***In Session***
* Metal Boys - Sweet Marylin / Fugue For A Darkening Island *(7” on Rough Trade RT 016) 1979  **I Love My Label***
* Hot Chocolate - Emma (Soul Purrfection Version) ***3 In A Row***
* Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing (Disco Purrfection Version) ***3 In A Row***
* Hot Chocolate - Put Your Love In Me (12’') ***3 In A Row***
* Val McKenna - Love Feeling *(From the album Northern Soul - The Ultimate Collection)*  ***Northern Soul***
* AC/DC - Hell's Bells *(From the album Back In Black) **Disinterred 33⅓***
* Queen - Killer Queen *(From the album Greatest Hits) **It’s Only Rock And Roll***
* Deep Purple - Silver Tongue (*From the album Bananas) **It’s Only Rock And Roll***
* Ozzy Osbourne - Breakin’ All The Rules *(From the album No Rest For The Wicked)* ***It’s Only Rock And Roll***
* Robert Plant - Big Love *(From the album Manic Nirvana)* ***It’s Only Rock And Roll***
* UK Decay - Rising From The Dead (Peel Session 29/04/80) ***In Session***
* David Bowie - I Wish You Would *(From the album Pin Ups)*
* T.Rex - Mad Donna *(From the album Tanx)*

***Birthday Files: 29th April** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April\_29*

1429: Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orléans.

1760: French forces commence the siege of Quebec which is held by the British.

1770: James Cook arrives in Australia at Botany Bay, which he names.

1916: World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces history up to that point.

1916: Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the end of the Easter Rising.

1945: World War II: Adolf Hitler marries his longtime partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Dönitz as his successor.  Hitler and Braun both commit suicide the following day.

Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States forces.

1967: After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.

1968: The controversial musical Hair, a product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, opens at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway, with some of its songs becoming anthems of the anti-Vietnam War conflict

* Gerome Ragni & The Hair Ensemble - Hair

1970: Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.

1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.

* Newsbeat 30/04/86 Chernobyl leak

2011: The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton took place at Westminster Abbey in London

***Born on this day***

1931: Lonnie Donegan, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist

* Lonnie Donegan - Cumberland Gap

1936: April Stevens (who passed away the other week)

* Nino Tempo & April Stevens - Whispering

1958: Michelle Pfeiffer, American actress from Grease 2

* Michelle Pfeiffer, Lorna Luft & Maureen Teefy - Girl For All Seasons
* Cliff Richard & The Drifters - Be Bop A Lula (Live) *(From the album Cliff) **The Jean Genie***

**Top 10 Albums  w/e 1st May 1993**

* **10**  David Essex - Cover Shot: Everlasting Love
* **9**  The Fall - Infotainment Scam: Glam-Racket
* **8**  Dina Carroll - So Close: Falling
* **7** Aerosmith - Get A Grip: Fever
* **6** Duran Duran - Duran Duran (The Wedding Album): Shotgun
* **5**  Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales: She’s Too Good For Me
* **4**  Cliff Richard - The Album: Handle My Heart With Love
* **3**  PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me: Highway ’61 Revisted
* **2**  World Party - Bang!: Kingdom Come
* **1**  REM - Automatic For The People: Try Not To Breathe
* Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffanys *(From the album Huge Hits 96)* ***Compilation Corner***

**MRIB Indie Chart w/e 30th April 1983**

* **10** Damned - White Rabbit
* **9** *Julie London - Cry Me A River*
* **8** *Sisters Of Mercy - Anaconda*
* **7** Omega Tribe - Angry Songs EP: Time For Change
* **6** Sex Gang Children - Song And Legend
* **5** *Serious Drinking - Hangover*
* **4** Go Betweens - Cattle And Cane
* **3** Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig (12" Version)
* **2** *Peter & The Test Tube Babies - Zombie Creeping Flesh*
* **1** New Order - Blue Monday (12”)
* Cellar Door - Whole Lotta Rosie (Portrush Yacht Club 26/01/19) ***Undercover Of The Night***
* Cellar Door - You Shook Me All Night Long (The Quays, Portrush 01/02/19) ***Undercover Of The Night***
* Cellar Door - 20th Century Boy (Anchor Complex, Portstewart 13/11/21) ***Undercover Of The Night***

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