Wayne Coyne - 6 Music Festive Takeover

WAYNE COYNE - 6 MUSIC FESTIVE TAKEOVER (320kbs-m4a/255mb/1hr51mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 25th December 2023

He's sung about Christmas at the Zoo, covered White Christmas and even starred as alien Santa in the movie Christmas on Mars, so who could be better qualified than Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne to take control of 6 Music's Festive Takeover?

Along the way we can expect music from the likes, of Marvin Gaye, Yoko Ono, Nell, Miley Cyrus and David Bowie, plus stories from across The Flaming Lips 40 years at the heart of the indie music scene.

Produced by Paul Sheehan.

Low - Just Like Christmas
shame - Feliz Navidad [Dead Oceans]
Imagene Peise - Winter Wonderland [Warner Bros.]
Petula Clark - Downtown [EMI]
Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? [EMI]
Imagene Peise - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [Warner Bros.]
Yard Act - 100% Endurance [Island]
Laura Marling - Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)
Burl Ives - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer [Capitol]
The Organ Keys - Do You Realize [Warner Bros]
Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town [Columbia]
Steven Drozd - Christmas Snowflakes On The Autobahn [Boondice]
Judy Garland - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [Pure Music]
John Lennon - Cold Turkey [Calderstone]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Band - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [EMI]
Miley Cyrus - Karen Don't Be Sad [RCA]
Vince Guaraldi Trio - The Christmas Song [Fantasy]
John Coltrane - Greensleves [Supreme Media]
Shane MacGowan And The Popes - Christmas Lullaby [EMI Music Australia]
Imagene Peise - Christmas Laughing Waltz [Warner Bros.]
Bee Gees - Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You [Universal]
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime [MPL]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Christmastime In The Mountains [Domino]
The Who - Christmas
Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes [Motown]
The Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn't So) [Warner Bros.]
David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy [Telstar]
Big Star - Jesus Christ [Rhino]
Pretenders - 2000 Miles [Virgin]
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet [GB / Zaleski Enterprises]

The First Time With... Series 4 - 1. Wayne Coyne

THE FIRST TIME WITH... SERIES 4 - 1. WAYNE COYNE (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 14th July 2019

Another chance to hear Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips discussing his key musical moments and songs that shaped his life and career with Matt Everitt. First broadcast in 2012.

Coyne was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and formed the band in 1983 with brother Mark and Michael Ivins.

They've since released thirteen studio albums and their incendiary live shows are the stuff of legend, Wayne normally making his entrance onstage inside a bubble and floating across the audience.

Wayne talks about his musical childhood and youth growing up in Oklahoma, his seminal experience seeing The Who in 77, finding fame with The Flaming Lips, and the battles with drugs that the band has had to deal with, alongside his philosophies about psychedelics, his love of (and working with) Yoko Ono, the genius of Pink Floyd and his ideas about the inclusive nature of music.

The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize [Warner]
Peter, Paul & Mary - Puff (The Magic Dragon) [Warner]
The Beatles - I Wanna Hold Your Hand [Parlaphone]
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat? [Universal]
The Stooges - Search And Destroy [Essential]
Jimi Hendrix - Peace In Mississippi
The Who - See Me, Feel Me (Live) [Polydor]
The Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly
The Flaming Lips - Yoshime Battles The Pink Robots [Warner]
Mercury Rev - Opus 40 [V2]
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage [Harvest]
Judy Garland - Somewhere Over The Rainbow [Capitol]
The Flaming Lips (Feat. Yoko Ono) - Do It
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World [EMI]