I enjoyed both the recent BBC Radio 2 shows. I was particulaly looking forward to last night's (now on listen again) because of Oasis performing Within You Without You. Pete Docherty and Carl Barat's take on A Day In the Life was surprisingly very good. Russell Brand's When I'm Sixty Four (in the style of Marilyn Monroe) was just so completely different my jaw dropped. That Lesley Douglas apparently specifically asked Russell to sing a song about losing his hair, getting old and going grey (all his worst nightmares other than not being famous) perhaps confirms that she does have the evil sense of humour that we suspected when she replaced Johnnie Walker with Chris Evans.

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A fuller version of When I'm Sixty Four was later played on the Russell Brand Show, about 25 minutes in and also repeated for the benefit of Noel Gallagher about an hour and 45 minutes in. Noel gave him some Simon Cowell-like career advice!

Oasis' Within You Without You was superb. I used to think that CDs were invented to let you programme out that track and the Yoko Ono songs on John Lennon albums. However, I've warmed to WYWY over the years and Oasis have given it an excellent makeover.