:00:35. > :00:55.It's Tuesday. We are live, and this is The National.
:00:56. > :01:41.# If I stay here trouble will find me
:01:42. > :01:53.# If I stay here trouble will find me
:01:54. > :02:37.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:02:38. > :02:44.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:02:45. > :02:52.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:02:53. > :03:01.# But they say love is a virtue don't they?
:03:02. > :04:17.The National with Sea of Love. Tonight the room is packed with
:04:18. > :04:22.people, from Rock Island, Illinois we have Lissie, beautifully reformed
:04:23. > :04:27.for your purposes, Graham Parker The Rumour. From London, we welcome
:04:28. > :04:31.London grammar, the most amazing player from West Africa, Ballake
:04:32. > :04:35.Sissoko and now from Fairfield, Connecticut, the marvellous moving
:04:36. > :04:45.sound, the beautiful voice of the one and beautiful John Mayer.
:04:46. > :04:57.# River's strong you can't swim inside it
:04:58. > :05:03.# We could string some lights up the hill beside it
:05:04. > :05:11.# You could drive with your headlights out
:05:12. > :05:21.# Cos a little bit of summer's what the whole year's all about
:05:22. > :06:20.# Cos a little bit of summer makes a lot of history
:06:21. > :07:04.# I got a rock from the river in my medicine bag
:07:05. > :08:43.John Mayer with Wildfire. Now we go to this corner and enjoy a band that
:08:44. > :09:00.is getting looks -- lots of acclaim of late. They are London grammar.
:09:01. > :09:10.# And I'm so damn caught in the middle
:09:11. > :09:25.# And I'm so down caught in the middle
:09:26. > :09:30.# And if a lion, a lion roars, would you
:09:31. > :09:37.# Not listen, if a child a child cries?
:09:38. > :10:13.# Excuse me for a while turn a blind eye
:10:14. > :10:20.# With a stare caught right in the middle
:10:21. > :10:41.# And if a lion, a lion roars would you
:10:42. > :10:49.# Not listen if a child a child cried?
:10:50. > :12:18.Thank you, London Grammar. From their album If You Want. Our next
:12:19. > :12:21.artist first came on the show in 2010 with her debut album. We
:12:22. > :12:25.enjoyed it so much we asked her back. She has a new album, Back To
:12:26. > :12:33.Forever. We welcome Lissie. # With my blue jeans on
:12:34. > :12:38.and you stuck in my head # I take it all back
:12:39. > :12:40.I don't mean what I said # Dead roses on the bedside table
:12:41. > :12:44.and a movie on # I've been here for days
:12:45. > :12:54.so what's a couple days more? # I've been sleepwalking
:12:55. > :12:59.dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:13:00. > :13:07.I will be feeling all right # We've been cheap thrillin'
:13:08. > :13:10.and freewheeling # Till I get blue in the face
:13:11. > :13:16.while you're waking the dead # Life is so incomplete
:13:17. > :13:34.everywhere I look # And every set of eyes I meet
:13:35. > :13:48.read me like a book # They can tell I've been
:13:49. > :13:55.sleepwalking dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:13:56. > :14:02.I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'
:14:03. > :14:10.and freewheeling # Taking your worries
:14:11. > :14:13.and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking
:14:14. > :14:52.dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:14:53. > :14:58.I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'
:14:59. > :15:04.and freewheeling # Taking your worries
:15:05. > :15:09.and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking
:15:10. > :15:18.dreams talking # Telling myself that soon
:15:19. > :15:47.I will be feeling all right. # Thank you, Lissie. Now, I'm very sad
:15:48. > :15:52.to report on Sunday a wonderful artist and a regular visitor to this
:15:53. > :15:56.show died. We're going to show you a clip of one of his great songs
:15:57. > :16:01.followed by some of his thoughts on that song. This is from about ten
:16:02. > :16:08.years ago, and if you go to our website, you can see this and much,
:16:09. > :16:12.much more of the late, great Lou Reid.
:16:13. > :16:25.Just a perfect day. # Drinking Sangria in the park
:16:26. > :16:34.# And later when it gets dark # We go home
:16:35. > :16:51.# Just a perfect day # Feed the animals in the zoo
:16:52. > :17:01.# Then a movie or two and then home. # Ah, it's such a perfect day
:17:02. > :17:09.# I'm glad I spent it with you # Oh, such a perfect day.
:17:10. > :17:19.# You just keep me hanging on. # You just keep me hanging on. I
:17:20. > :17:23.suppose the question must be what was the perfect day you were writing
:17:24. > :17:27.about in that song? That's what everybody wants to know. If I had
:17:28. > :17:32.had a perfect day, I never would have written about one! I wouldn't
:17:33. > :17:39.know a perfect day if it bit me. Well, you wrote very well about it.
:17:40. > :17:44.Lou Reed, thank you very much. Featuring there in the background,
:17:45. > :17:48.by the way, Anthony Johnson, one of his first performances ever with us,
:17:49. > :17:54.and the lovely Tai Chi instructor there, so let's hear it for the
:17:55. > :17:59.late, great, marvellous Lou Reed. APPLAUSE
:18:00. > :18:05.Now, back to the land of the living, and I'm delighted to say they have
:18:06. > :18:17.reformed, and they're here live for you now, Graham Parker The Rumour.
:18:18. > :18:20.MUSIC: "Long Emotional Ride" Graham Parker and The Rumour
:18:21. > :18:29.# Got to observe everything from a distance
:18:30. > :18:37.# But lately I've been feeling things
:18:38. > :18:47.# Maybe I'm just getting old or somethin'
:18:48. > :18:50.# But something broke down my resistance
:18:51. > :19:37.# But now I wanna hear what other people say
:19:38. > :19:52.# I thought I dreamed it but it was real
:19:53. > :19:58.# I realised I'd been surrounded by friends
:19:59. > :20:59.# I once had my head filled with things
:21:00. > :21:32.# Long, long emotional ride
:21:33. > :21:53.# On this long, long emotional ride. #
:21:54. > :22:08.APPLAUSE The beautifully reformed Graham
:22:09. > :22:13.Parker The Rumour with Long Eemotional Ride from Three Chords
:22:14. > :22:19.Good. The next artist we're going to introduce you to is the master of
:22:20. > :22:22.the Mollian Hop. He's really the master of it. We welcome Ballake
:22:23. > :25:47.Sissoko. Thanks to Ballake Sissoko. Thanks to
:25:48. > :25:51.all of our guests this evening. Thank you, Lissie, thank you, Graham
:25:52. > :25:54.Parker The Rumour. APPLAUSE
:25:55. > :25:58.Thank you, London Grammar. APPLAUSE
:25:59. > :26:04.Thank you, John Mayer. . I will be back at 11.00pm on Friday with more
:26:05. > :26:08.from all of our guests, and there's more, of course, of dear Lou Reed on
:26:09. > :26:31.our website. Now, The National. MUSIC: "Don't Swallow The Cap"
:26:32. > :26:34.The National # Pull out breaks
:26:35. > :26:36.behind the houses # I don't see
:26:37. > :26:38.what's strange about this # When it gets so late
:26:39. > :27:50.I forget everyone # Don't think
:27:51. > :27:57.anybody I know is awake # I see a bright, white
:27:58. > :28:12.beautiful heaven hangin' over me # There's a time to leave
:28:13. > :28:43.there's a time to think about # What I wanna say to
:28:44. > :28:46.the girls at the door # But I can't get around the river
:28:47. > :28:52.in front of me # I see a bright, white
:28:53. > :30:18.beautiful heaven hangin' over me Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd.
:30:19. > :30:21.E-mail: accessibility@bskyb.com.