All you students, academics and would be mathematicians out there will have calculated that THE FRIDAY MUSIC SPOT is fast approaching track number 200. Hands up if you knew that ?
Today is actually No.199.

When I started out, the intention was not to repeat myself, but some artists have appeared more than once: AC/DC, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac, Joe Bonamassa, The Byrds, Rod Stewart and Pink Floyd. (hmm, more than I thought)! While others have inevitably turned up a few times in different shapes and forms: Mark Knopfler, Roger McGuinn, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Steve Howe, Neil Young and Eric Clapton.
Here are some of my favourite artists we have yet to featured (probably because picking just ONE track has proved beyond me): Jackson Browne (though he was on Gregg Allman & Friends), Tom Waits, John Martyn, Oasis, Kinks (Ray Davies we have had), Red Hot Chilli Peppers and The Doors. One of them will be No.200. I've just not yet quite decided who….

Before that today's track is .....

Based on Emily Bronte's classic book of the same name, it's Kate Bush and 'Wuthering Heights'. However the familiar single version was only 3.30 minutes long and it misses off the one minute guitar solo by Scottish musician Ian Bairnson that plays it out on the album track. I was unaware of this version for ages. Here it is along with a great video 'mash-up' of different performances down the years. Here's waving at yer...

A 1978 hit and No.1 for 4 weeks in the UK, it was also No.1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy & New Zealand plus a Top 10 entry in many other European countries, but I can find no record of any chart success in America. So this may come as something entirely new to listeners across the Atlantic.