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The Human League, featuring Phil Oakey, third from left.
Song of the Day: More love song action, and groundbreaking synth pop, following yesterday's Eurythmics, with Phil Oakley and the Sheffield crew pumping out a classic from the 1981 album Dare
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Cat Power aka Chan Marshall
Song of the Day: Following Go-Kart Mozart's wonderfully chirpy songs about doleful poverty and adult depression, we turn to a aka Chan Marshall's song addressed at a teenager feeling down from online bullying
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Desert to Delta: Songhoy Blues were formed in Bamako, Mali.
Song of the Day: A special double, from each of their first two albums, Music In Exile (2015) and Résistance (2017), by the brilliant guitar band from Timbuktu, who were forced to flee Mali after war and Sharia Law. Beloved by many including collaborator Iggy Pop, their superb African funk-blues fusion echoes Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys, John Lee Hooker and Jimi Hendrix
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A youthful Van Morrison and Them in the mid-60s
Song of the Day: A triple Sunday treat from the early days of Van Morrison and his fellow Belfast boys, showing his raw, powerful voice, anger, lust, and in the final song, the tenderness yet to come
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Day of rest? Iggy Pop and Josh Homme
Song of the Day: What is Sunday for? Rest and recuperation? Let's stretch out with that leathery veteran Iggy to find out, here from 2016's superb album working with Josh Homme
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