The Whole Nine Yards Episode 136
With Roy Stannard
On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM
Sunday 3rd September 2023 3-5pm
www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen
There was a time when bands made as many manifestos as they made records.
A manifesto is what you want to change in the world through your art.
Music isn’t just about how to write a song, it’s about making a cultural impact. Manifestos have the power to spark whole movements, provoke social change, and cause revolutions that change our vision of art, music and beyond.
They can predict the future. They can re-set the past..
These are some of my favourite music manifestos. Have you thought what yours could be?
Hour One
Pretenders – Middle Of The Road (Learning To Crawl 1983)
Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air (Hollywood Dream 1969)
Hard-Fi – The King (Once Upon a Time in the West 2007)
Matt Monro – Born Free (This is the Life 1966)
U2 – One (Achtung Baby 1992)
The Killers – Be Still (Battle Born 2012)
Justin Currie – No Surrender (What is Love For 2007)
Ben Howard – Keep Your Head Up (Every Kingdom 2012)
Jessie Ware – Remember Where You Are (What’s Your Pleasure? 2020)
Rebecca Ferguson – I Hope (Freedom 2013)
Paloma Faith – Better Than This (Infinite Things 2020)
Hour Two
Curtis Mayfield – Move on Up (Curtis 1970)
The Housemartins – He Ain’t Heavy (London 0 Hull 4 1992)
Rufus Wainwright – He Ain’t Heavy, he’s my Brother (Zoolander OST 2001)
George Michael – Going to a Town (Symphonica 2014)
Charles Aznavour – What Makes a Man (His Greatest Hits – In English 1972) Idiote je t’aime…
Comme Ils Disent’ in French
Phil Campbell – Faith, Hope and You (Fresh New Life 1997)
John Miles – Music 5.54 (Rebel 1976)
Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting (This is my Truth Tell me Yours 1998)
Tom Baxter – My Declaration 5.25 (Feather and Stone 2004)
Amy Macdonald – What happiness Means to me 4.53 (A Curious Thing 2010)
Musical hieroglyphics and wonders 