BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. The service provides national radio stations covering the majority of musical genres, as well as local radio stations covering local news, affairs and interests. Internally, BBC Radio is now organised under the banner of BBC Audio & Music, which also oversees online audio content.
Of the national radio stations, BBC Radio 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Live are all available through analogue radio (5 Live on AM only) as well as on DAB Digital Radio and internet services through Real Media, WMA and BBC iPlayer. The remaining stations, BBC Radio 1Xtra, 4 Extra, 5 Live Sports Extra and 6 Music, all broadcast on digital platforms only.
All of the BBC's national radio stations, with the exception of BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra who broadcast from MediaCityUK in Salford, broadcast from bases in London, usually in or near to Broadcasting House. However, radio programmes are also made in the BBC's network production units located in Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow and Manchester.
Dejan Lazić (born in Zagreb, 1977) is a Croatian pianist and composer, and a naturalised Austrian citizen.
His fresh interpretations of the piano repertoire have established him as one of the most sought-after and unusual soloists of his generation. He has appeared with such orchestras as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bamberger Symphoniker, Swedish Radio, Danish National, Helsinki Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra, working with such conductors as Iván Fischer, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Giovanni Antonini, Kirill Petrenko, Robert Spano and John Storgårds.
Dejan Lazić made his debut at the BBC Proms in summer 2011, performing two concerts; once with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, to give the UK premiere of his own arrangement of the Brahms Violin Concerto for piano and orchestra and again to perform Liszt with Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer. Further performances with BFO/Fischer in the current season include dates in Budapest and on tour in Gent, Milan and at the Beethovenfest Bonn. He appears also with Basel Chamber Orchestra, performing at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Hamburger Philharmoniker at Hamburger Ostertöne festival, Trondheim Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic and, further afield, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de Sao Paulo, plus Pacific and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (/ˈstɛfəniː dʒʌrməˈnɑːtə/ STE-fə-nee jurr-mə-NAH-tə; born March 28, 1986), known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American singer and songwriter. Born and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of 2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon Live Distribution.
Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance" and "Poker Face". After embarking on the The Fame Ball Tour, she followed the album with The Fame Monster (2009), which spawned the worldwide hit singles "Bad Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". The album's success allowed her to embark on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which later became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Her most recent album Born This Way (2011) topped the charts of most major markets and generated more international chart-topping singles, including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory". Besides her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and LGBT activism.
Marc Riley (born in Manchester, England, 10 July 1961) is a British musician, alternative rock critic and radio DJ on BBC Radio 6 Music. Formerly a member of The Fall, he had his own record label, In-Tape, and also worked as a record plugger. Marc has worked in radio since about 1990 and for 14 years of that he worked with Mark Radcliffe on BBC Radio 5 and BBC Radio 1, during which time he was known as Lard. He joined 6 Music in April 2004.
Born and bred in Manchester, England, Riley was in a band at school called The Sirens before joining The Fall between June 1978 and October 1982. He originally was a fan of the group and then worked as a roadie before being added to the line-up playing guitar and bass. He can be heard on this instrument on their second single "It's The New Thing" and debut album Live at the Witch Trials. He switched to guitar and keyboards in 1979 and held this position until falling out with Mark E. Smith during the group's 1982 tour of Australia and New Zealand. In 2005, he told the BBC that Smith had sacked him by telephone in early 1983, telling him that they were undertaking a tour without him. According to Smith this happened on Riley's wedding day, but Riley has said that this wasn't true. Riley formed his own band, The Creepers.Steve Hanley, Paul Hanley and Craig Scanlon played on The Creepers' first single. They released several albums during the following years, but had disbanded by the end of the decade. He then formed a band including ex-members of Pere Ubu and Captain Beefheart's Magic Band called The Lost Soul Crusaders (named after a fictional group in an episode of the detective series Columbo whose lead singer was played by one of Riley's heroes, Johnny Cash) but the record company funding the band went bust before any material could be recorded.
Tim Davie (born 1967) is the BBC's Director of Audio and Music. He joined the BBC in April 2005.
In his current role, he sits on the BBC's Executive Board with overall responsibility for all of the BBC's national radio networks and the corporation's music output across all media. This includes BBC Radios 1, 2, 3 and 4; as well as the BBC digital radio stations Asian Network, 1Xtra, 6 Music and BBC 7; the three BBC orchestras based in England; and the Proms. He also heads up programme making teams across radio and music television. BBC Audio and Music has an annual programming budget of c.£200 million and a staff of over 1,400. In June 2008, it was announced that he was replacing Dame Jenny Abramsky who served at the BBC for 39 years before leaving to chair the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Prior to his current role, he was BBC Director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences.
He was Mark Thompson's first senior external appointment as Director General of the BBC.
Appointed as UK Marketing Manager for PepsiCo in 1993, Tim was subsequently promoted to Vice President, Marketing, Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa, holding several similar appointments, including in the United States, before taking up the Vice President for Marketing and Franchise post.
[Chorus x2: Razah]
From Brooklyn to Moscow what we got now
Mezza Morta meets the Renaissance Child
From Red Hook to Russia now we move crowds
International, they bow down
[Hell Razah:]
Since the days of Atari I follow the steps of Marcus Garvey
I ride on anything wrong that's not Godly
A shotgun get in my hand become a Sharpie
I write down the day of your death if you ain't spark me
The sequel was no room left to see a part 3
I'm back like Jason 40s with more weed
I spit it heavenly, my wisdom transform the melodies
Being black is like I already been born with felonies
A hundred bars like a Centipede pray for enemies
Got genes in me from the unseen and dead poets
Claustaphobic to one track minds that ain't focused
At the edge is a dead end road with Black Vultures
We might as well go and bury our self
We need help, seek health
Like knowledge and self or get shelved
Will I be noble and free?
A young mogul Noble Drew Ali
I stare like Constantinople show you who I be
See I'm in bars with cognac, cigars'
Happy ending from Maccabeez, Japanese massages
From the heavens where God lives
Regardless you press charges, we insert the cartridge
The Grim Reaper with a street sweeper
You hot boy I'm the heat seeker
You iced out I'm a deep freezer
And I don't think y'all don't want no beef neither
I got to Russia like a Saint Peter