Masterpiece: Annie Nightingale

Very few can lay claim to the kind of legacy created by Annie Nightingale. Best known as the first female DJ on the BBC, she is also Radio 1’s longest serving broadcaster, and holds the world record for the longest ever running radio show. Annie is the first female DJ to curate the latest instalment of the critically acclaimed Ministry of Sound ‘Masterpiece’ series out on July 17th.
 
Throughout her 50-year career, Annie has always specialised in championing underground music, staunchly supporting artists from classic rock and pop, through new wave, acid house, breakbeat, grime, trap and much more. Ever refusing to compromise her taste, she describes the personal value of her selections, saying: ‘if I couldn’t choose the music I played, I wouldn’t want to do it at all’.
 
Annie’s own compilation is an effort to document her international impact on popular music across the span of her career, featuring artists as diverse as Missy Elliott, Joy Division, Blondie, The Prodigy, Tinie Tempah, and The Chemical Brothers, right through to new names of bass and trap such as Flux Pavilion, Keys N Krates and Troyboi. In Annie’s words: ‘It’s the story of (mostly) British music over the past five decades from the touchstones who started it all off. From Paul McCartney of The Beatles, to The Rolling Stones and The Who, right through to the artists of today whom I think so much of. Many of these titans have never agreed to being on a compilation before – and certainly not together.’
 
Her work will also be celebrated with two documentaries on Radio 2, airing on 15th and 22nd July. These documentaries will feature exclusive interviews from artists who have agreed to be part of Annie’s ‘Masterpiece’, including Underworld, Basement Jaxx, The Streets, and Primal Scream.

Masterpiece – Annie Nightingale – Tracklisting
 
CD1   
   
1 The Rolling Stones     Miss You 
2 Paul McCartney      Maybe I’m Amazed 
3 The Who      Baba O’Riley 
4 Cameo       Word Up! 
5 The Marvelettes      Too Many Fish In The Sea 
6 Propaganda      Duel
7 Scott Walker      Jackie
8 Moonflowers       Get Higher (The “Get Dubbier” Mix)
9 The Lovin’ Spoonful     Summer in the City
10 Frances Nero      Footsteps Following Me
11 Heaven 17      Temptation
12 Rozalla       Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) 
13 The Byrds      All I Really Want To Do 
14 London Grammar     Hey Now (Tensnake Remix)
 
CD2       
1 Primal Scream      Don’t Fight It 
2 Lou Reed      Vicious
3 Joy Division      Transmission
4 Blondie       Rapture
5 Meat Beat Manifesto     Radio Babylon
6 Basement Jaxx      Rendez-Vu
7 Plutonic       Tubular Bells
8 Missy Elliott      Get Ur Freak On
9 Joe Jackson      Steppin’ Out 
10 La Roux      Bulletproof (Zinc Remix)
11 Underworld      Rez
12 The Cure      A Forest (Shortened Edit)
13 Ian Dury & The Blockheads    Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
14 William Orbit      Barber’s Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)
 
CD3     

1 The Prodigy      Out Of Space
2 The Chemical Brothers     Galvanize
3 Tinie Tempah      Pass Out 
4 Dizzee Rascal Feat. Armand Van Helden  Bonkers (Radio Edit)
5 Magnetic Man Feat. Angela Hunte   I Need Air (Digital Soundboy Remix)
6 Flux Pavilion      Blow The Roof
7 The Streets      Blinded By The Lights
8 Example      Stay Awake 
9 Keys N Krates      I Just Can’t Deny 
10 MGMT Kids      Soulwax Mix
11 Troyboi       Fireman
12 Moby       Go (Woodtick Mix)
13 Shamir       On The Regular
14 The Mitchell Brothers Feat. Sway   Harvey Nicks