A special show from Xanthe Bearman titled Then & Now.  Xanthe picked out songs from artists who had hits as far back as 1971, and played their earlier songs, along with their recent hits.

Listen again here:

Featured Artists

Rick Astley

Never Going To Give You Up (1987)

Every One Of Us (2019)

Beverley Knight

Flavour Of The Old School (1995)

Back To Life (2019)

Status Quo

Down Down (1975)

Liberty Lane (2019)

Louise

Light Of My Life (1995)

Lead Me On (2019)

Jeff Lynne’s E.L.O.

From Out Of Nowhere (2019)

10538 Overture (1972)

Celine Dion

Don’t Leave Without Me (1988)

Lying Down (2019)

Sheryl Crow

All I Wanna Do (1994)

Tell Me When Its Over (2019)

Westlife

Swear It Again (1999)

My Blood (2019)

Rod Stewart

Maggie May (1971)

It Takes Two (2019) With Robbie Williams

Shakespear’s Sister

You’re History (1989)

All The Queens Horses (2019)

Simply Red

Money’s Too Tight (1985)

Sweet Child (2019)

Kylie Minogue

Hand On Your Heart (1989)

New York City (2019)

George Michael

This Is How (We Want You To Get High) (2019)

Faith (1987)

Elton John

Philadelphia Freedom (1975)

I’m Gonna Love Me Again (2019)

Bruce Springsteen

Blinded By The Light (1973)

Sundown (2019)