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BBC Rounds Up Franz, Klaxons For Covers Album

BBC Radio 1 turns 40 years old this year, and to celebrate the UK broadcasting giant will release a compilarion comprised of 40 cover songs: one for each year that the station has been on the air, performed by many of the artists currently on the playlist.

BBC Radio 1 Cover Album Track List:

1967 Kaiser Chiefs - "Flowers in the Rain" (The Move) 1968 The Fratellis - "All Along The Watchtower"

(The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

1969 Amy Winehouse - "Cupid" (Johnny Nash)

1970 Robbie Williams - "Lola" (The Kinks) 1971 The Streets - "Your Song" (Elton John) 1972 Sugababes - "Betcha by Golly Wow" (The Stylistics) 1973 The Feeling - "You're So Vain" (Carly Simon) 1974 Foo Fighters - "Band on the Run" (Wings) 1975 Kylie - "Love Is the Drug" (Roxy Music) 1976 KT Tunstall - "Let's Stick Together" (Bryan Ferry) 1977 Franz Ferdinand - "Sound and Vision" (David Bowie) 1978 The Raconteurs - "Teenage Kicks" (The Undertones) 1979 Mika - "Can't Stand Losing You" (The Police)

1980 Kasabian - "Too Much Too Young" (The Specials) 1981 Keane - "Under Pressure" (Queen & David Bowie) 1982 McFly - "Town Called Malice" (The Jam) 1983 James Morrison - "Come Back and Stay" (Paul Young) 1984 The Gossip - "Careless Whisper" (George Michael) 1985 The Pigeon Detectives - "The Power of Love" (Huey Lewis & the News)

1986 Lily Allen - "Don't Get Me Wrong" (The Pretenders) 1987 Stereophonics - "You Sexy Thing" (Hot Chocolate) 1988 Mutya Buena - "Fast Car" (Tracy Chapman) 1989 Editors - "Lullaby" (The Cure)

1990 Razorlight - "Englishman in New York" (Sting) 1991 Groove Armada - "Crazy for You" (Madonna) 1992 Paolo Nutini - "It Must Be Love" (Madness) 1993 The Kooks - "All That She Wants" (Ace of Base) 1994 Mark Ronson - "You're All I Need to Get By" (Mary J. Blige) 1995 Calvin Harris - "Stillness in Time" (Jamiroquai) 1996 Klaxons - "No Diggity" (Blackstreet) 1997 Just Jack - "Lovefool" (The Cardigans) 1998 Natasha Bedingfield - "Ray of Light" (Madonna) 1999 The Twang - "Drinking in L.A." (Bran Van 3000)

2000 The Fray - "The Great Beyond" (R.E.M.) 2001 Girls Aloud - "Teenage Dirtbag" (Wheatus) 2002 Maxïmo Park: "Like I Love You" (Justin Timberlake) 2003 The View - "Don't Look Back Into the Sun" (The Libertines) 2004 Hard-Fi - "Toxic" (Britney Spears) 2005 The Enemy - "Father & Son" (Yusuf & Ronan Keating) 2006 Corinne Bailey Rae - "Steady, As She Goes" (The Raconteurs)

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