"PURE presents Luna's Dean & Britta"

"PURE presents Luna's Dean & Britta" (broadcast 2/21/25)

James Last: Ballad Of The Easy Rider
Dean Wareham: That’s The Price of Loving Me 
Kramer: America
Holy Matter: Eve’s Hollywood
En Attendant Ana: I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday
Norma Tanega: Jubilation
The Tyde: Let Me Hear the Music
Simon & Garfunkel: The Only Living Boy In New York (a cappella)
Dean & Britta: The Singer Not The Song
Richard Hell & the Voidoids: I’m Your Man (demo)
Jess Cornelius: Back to the Mainland
Dana Gillespie: Andy Warhol
Midnight Magic: Beam Me Up (PerelRemix Edit)
Mike Garry & Joe Duddell: St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H. Wilson
England's Glory: Shattered Illusions
Escapism: The Rebel Outlaw
Lisa O'Neill feat. Peter Doherty: Homeless In The Thousands (Dublin in the Digital Age)
Dean Wareham: You were The Ones I Had To Betray
Erny Belle: Bowman
Marianne Faithfull: Sunny Goodge Street
Princess Chelsea: Forever Is A Charm
Dennis Wilson: Fallin’ In Love
Dion: I Can’t Help But Wonder Where I’m Bound
Klara Kristin: La fille au rasoir
La Volume Courbe: Aint Got No… I Got Life
U-She, Holger Czukay: Sunday Morning
Michael Rother: Sonnenrad
Christine Perfect: When You Say
Sir John Betjeman: The Licorice Fields at Pontefract
Dean & Britta w/Sonic Boom: Snow
Nancy & Lee: Tired Of Waiting For You
Big Search: Wellspring
Automatic: New Sensations
The Hard Quartet: Rio’s Song
The Melenas: Bang
Yamasuki: Aieaoa
Bnny: Promises
Air: Seven Stars (feat. Victoria Le Grand)
Marianne Faithfull: Something Better
Cristina: He Dines Out On Death
Ed Kuepper: Everything I’ve Got Belongs To You
Fleetwood Mac: The Farmer’s Daughter
Dean Wareham: Happy & Free (Jim James remix)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President