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Ken Bruce: Lighthouse Family perform live

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Lighthouse Family perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room.

Lighthouse Family, who have sold over 10 million records, perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. The actor Stephen Tompkinson picks his favourite songs in Tracks of My Years.

Lighthouse Family, one of the most successful bands of the late 1990s and early 2000s perform live in the Radio 2 Piano Room. They're back with a brand new studio album, Blue Sky In Your Head, after a huge gap of 18 years. As well as brand new music and the new single My Salvation, the album also includes Essentials, which are all the bands classic songs remastered for the very first time to celebrate their 25-year recording history. Tunde Baiyewu and Paul Tucker formed Lighthouse Family after meeting at Newcastle University in the early 1990s. Their 1995 debut album ‘Ocean Drive’ was a slow-burning success, going six times platinum while staying in the album charts for almost three years. ‘Lifted’ became one the defining songs of the era, a pop-soul classic that was inescapable on radio. The 1997 follow-up, ‘Postcards From Heaven’, featured three Top Ten singles – ‘Raincloud’, ‘High’ and ‘Lost in Space’ – and also went six-times platinum, charting across Europe, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. Their third album, ‘Whatever Gets You Through The Day’ (2001) produced another Top Ten single in the shape of ‘(I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be) Free/One’, but by this time the band were at breaking point, their friendship burnt out after years on the road living in each others’ pockets. And both of them were heartbroken by grief. Paul’s father had died, and he sought solace in the rock’n’roll lifestyle. While Tunde had lost his mother, a situation complicated by the fact that his stepfather, Olusegun Obasanjo, was at the time was the President of Nigeria. 

Stephen Tompkinson, the actor who has starred in ITV’s Torvill & Dean, BBC’s The Split, and seven series of Wild at Heart picks the Tracks of My Years with songs from Booker T & The MG's and The Jam.

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