Louise Wener
This week Vernon Kay's guest is author and musician, best known as the founder and lead singer of Britpop icons 鈥淪leeper鈥�, Louise Wener.
This week Vernon Kay's guest is author and musician, best known as the founder and lead singer of Britpop icons 鈥淪leeper鈥�, Louise Wener.
Louise went to Manchester University, where she met Jon Stewart, which led to the formation of Sleeper. They enjoyed huge critical and commercial success in the mid-90s with their debut album 鈥淪mart鈥� and the band went on to achieve 8 Top 40 singles across 3 Top 10 albums with well over a million sales.
Sleeper split in 1998 and walked purposely away from the limelight. Louise carved out a career as a successful novelist, publishing her autobiography, 鈥淒ifferent For Girls鈥� in 2010.
The Band then reformed in 2017 and have played a number sell-out tours since their comeback and after a summer of festivals this year, Sleeper will play their full headline 鈥淚nbetweener鈥� Greatest Hits UK tour, through September and October.
But Louise doesn鈥檛 let us down at the start of her Tracks of My Years journey her pick is Bruce Springsteen and 鈥淏orn To Run鈥�.
To listen on most smart speakers just say 鈥渁sk 蜜芽传媒 Sounds to play Tracks of My Years".
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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Born To Run
- Born To Run.
- CBS.
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Kate Bush
Wuthering Heights
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David Bowie
Modern Love
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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The Cure
In Between Days
- The Cure - Staring At The Sea.
- Fiction.
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Blur
To The End
- Glorious (Various Artists).
- Columbia.
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Radiohead
High And Dry
- Crush (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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U2
Beautiful Day
- Now 47 (Various Artists).
- Now.
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The Clash
London Calling
- Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
- Polydor.
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Hole
Celebrity Skin
- Geffen.
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Sam Fender
Seventeen Going Under
- Seventeen Going Under.
- Polydor.
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Broadcast
- Sun 30 Mar 2025 05:00蜜芽传媒 Radio 2