featuring events, birthdays and anniversaries on this day through the years.

with Frank Partridge

including two golden oldies in today's Firm Offer.

at 6.0 a review of the new Top 30 album chart including at 5.30
Newsbeat with Frank Partridge

with an appreciation of Billy Joel
Of the best-selling vocalist in the USA for the past three years he says: ' There are some people who think rhyming " coming in with " tonic and gin " in " Piano Man " was one of the most forced rhymes in the history of the language. but some of his best stuff is as good as anybody's. His album " The Stranger is a masterpiece.
' Like me. he's a New Yorker and one thing about New York is that it's so full of sensory images you're almost destined to suffer from sensory overload. There's so much there for writers like Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. Strangely enough Joel's is mostly ballad material. but he likes to think of himself as a rocker.'
Producer TEDDY WARRICK