The cardiac charity SADS UK saves lives.

SADS UK provides information, funds research and medical equipment to prevent premature sudden cardiac death. The charity works in the areas of Research, Prevention and Emergency Care; lives are saved as a direct result of the work of SADS UK.

My guests today were Anne Jolly MBE, co Founder of SADS UK and Linda Casey to tell us more about Sudden Arrythmic Death Syndrome and the work of the charity.

Linda Casey and Anne Jolly MBE

Linda and Anne spoke about their own personal tragedies that led to the foundation and their involvement in the charity.

You can listen to our chat here –

If you would like to donate or contact SADS UK the details are here – 

Email – sadsoffice@sadsuk.org    Phone – 01277 811 215     Website – sadsuk.org.uk

Also on today’s show –

Fans, musicians and former bandmates have paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, of pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, who has died aged 76.

Possibly the strangest pop hit of the 1970s was The Strawbs ‘Part of the Union’ sung by Dave Cousins who has died aged 85.

Today’s birthdays – 

1947 – David Essex, English singer-songwriter, and actor

1965 – Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as the lead guitarist of the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses

1971 – Alison Krauss, American singer-songwriter and fiddler

Martin’s Choice – My song choice for today is by American Singer songwriter and record producer Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. Born in April 1951 in New York but who sadly passed away in July 2005.

Vandross began his music career in the late 1960s performing at the Apollo Theater in New York City as part of a local musical ensemble. The group later appeared on the television show Sesame Street in the early 1970s. He eventually established himself as a sought-after backing vocalist, contributing to albums by Roberta Flack, Donny Hathaway, Todd Rundgren, Evelyn “Champagne” King , Judy Collins, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder,and Donna summer to name but a few!

In 1980, he served as the lead vocalist for the post-disco group called “Change” who had a hit album Titled “A Glow of Love”and from it had a hit single called “Searching” which is a great song.

After Vandross left the group, he was signed to Epic records as a solo artist and released his debut solo album, “Never Too Much” in 1981, this was then the start of a string of platinum selling albums he had with over 40 million sold worldwide. Vandross collaborated on several notable duets with other famous artists including Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Beyonce  which he had some big hits with. He has won many awards for his music including eight Grammys and was recognized by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 200 greatest singers of all time.

As is usual there are hundreds of great songs that he wrote to choose from but I’m going to request one of the many cover songs that he recorded and this one has a brilliant arrangement of an old song from the Roger’s and Hammerstein film “the Sound Of Music “ The song is called “My Favourite Things” to me this particular song shows off what a fantastic singer and great talent he was!

You can listen to the whole show here –