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Roland Gift from Fine Young Cannibals picks his Tracks Of My Years

Roland Gift, frontman of Fine Young Cannibals, joins Vernon Kay to select his Tracks Of My Years, celebrating forty years since the band's self-titled debut album.

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Roland Gift, frontman of Fine Young Cannibals, joins Vernon for his first choices of his Tracks Of My Years.

Born in Birmingham and raised in Hull, Roland joined Fine Young Cannibals after answering an advertisement for a vocalist by bassist David Steele and guitarist Andy Cox 鈥� both former members of The Beat. They took their name from the 1960 film All The Fine Young Cannibals and released two albums; their self-titled debut in 1985 and The Raw & The Cooked in 1989. The latter featured singles like She Drives Me Crazy and Good Thing - both of which topped the chart in the US. The Raw & The Cooked was globally successful, topping the album charts in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia. It sold over five million copies worldwide, topping charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and earned the band two BRIT Awards, an Ivor Novello, four MTV Music Video nominations and three Grammy nominations. The band split in 1992, and Roland has also worked as an actor on stage and screen

To mark forty years since the band's self-titled debut album, this month they're releasing a new career-spanning compilation, FYC40. Next year, Roland is playing live, with a 40 Years Of Songs By Fine Young Cannibals UK tour.

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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 24 Nov 2025 09:30
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    All I Want For Christmas Is You

    • Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas.
    • Columbia.

  • The O鈥橨ays

    Love Train

    • Now 100 Hits 70s (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Whitney Houston

    How Will I Know

    • The Best Of.
    • Arista.

  • Lewis Capaldi

    The Day That I Die

    • Survive E.P..
    • Vertigo Berlin.

  • Oasis

    Cigarettes & Alcohol (Live from Manchester, 11 July '25)

  • Roy Orbison

    Oh, Pretty Woman

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.
    • 16.

  • Level 42

    Something About You

    • The Complete Polydor Years: Volume 2 (1985-1989).
    • Cherry Red Records.

  • Meghan Trainor

    Still Don't Care

    • Toy With Me.
    • Epic.

  • The Drifters

    You're More Than A Number In My Little Red Book

    • Million Sellers Vol.15 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.

  • Fine Young Cannibals

    She Drives Me Crazy

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.

  • Hot Chocolate

    Every 1's a Winner

    • Hot Chocolate - Their Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Westlife

    Chariot

    • 25 - The Ultimate Collection.
    • Sony Music.

  • Bastille

    Save My Soul

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.

  • Huey Lewis and the News

    The Power Of Love

    • Huey Lewis & The News - Fore!.
    • Chrysalis.

  • Ella Eyre

    hell yeah

    • everything, in time.
    • PIAS.

  • Clean Bandit

    Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

    • Now That's What I Call Music 88 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 4.

  • Olly Murs

    Guilty

    • Knees Up.
    • BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd.
    • 3.

  • Stevie Wonder

    Another Star

    • (Single).
    • Motown.

  • Katy Perry

    bandaids

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol Records.

  • The Clash

    Complete Control

    • Columbia.

  • Jimmy Cliff

    The Harder They Come

    • BR Music.

  • Mumford & Sons & Hozier

    Rubber Band Man

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.

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  • Mon 24 Nov 2025 09:30
    麻豆社 Radio 2

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