The Whole Nine Yards Episode 136⁠ With Roy Stannard On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM⁠ Sunday 3rd September 2023 3-5pm ⁠ www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen⁠ ⁠ Music Manifesto⁠ ⁠ There was a time when bands made as many manifestos as they made records.⁠ A manifesto is what you want to change in the world through your art.⁠ Music isn’t just about how to write a song, it’s about making a cultural impact. Manifestos have the power to spark whole movements, provoke social change, and cause revolutions that change our vision of art, music and beyond.⁠ They can predict the future. They can re-set the past..⁠ These are some of my favourite music manifestos. Have you thought what yours could be? Hour One Pretenders - Middle Of The Road (Learning To Crawl 1983) Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air (Hollywood Dream 1969) Hard-Fi - The King (Once Upon a Time in the West 2007) Matt Monro – Born Free (This is the Life 1966) U2 – One (Achtung Baby 1992) The Killers – Be Still (Battle Born 2012) Justin Currie – No Surrender (What is Love For 2007) Ben Howard – Keep Your Head Up (Every Kingdom 2012) Jessie Ware - Remember Where You Are (What's Your Pleasure? 2020) Rebecca Ferguson – I Hope (Freedom 2013) Paloma Faith – Better Than This (Infinite Things 2020) Hour Two Curtis Mayfield – Move on Up (Curtis 1970) The Housemartins – He Ain’t Heavy (London 0 Hull 4 1992) Rufus Wainwright – He Ain’t Heavy, he’s my Brother (Zoolander OST 2001) George Michael – Going to a Town (Symphonica 2014) Charles Aznavour – What Makes a Man (His Greatest Hits – In English 1972) Idiote je t'aime... Comme Ils Disent’ in French Phil Campbell – Faith, Hope and You (Fresh New Life 1997) John Miles – Music 5.54 (Rebel 1976) Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting (This is my Truth Tell me Yours 1998) Tom Baxter – My Declaration 5.25 (Feather and Stone 2004) Amy Macdonald – What happiness Means to me 4.53 (A Curious Thing 2010)