Episode 7 Later... with Jools Holland

It's Tuesday. We are live, and this is The National.

# If I stay here trouble will find me

# If I stay here trouble will find me

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

# But they say love is a virtue don't they?

The National with Sea of Love. Tonight the room is packed with

people, from Rock Island, Illinois we have Lissie, beautifully reformed

for your purposes, Graham Parker The Rumour. From London, we welcome

London grammar, the most amazing player from West Africa, Ballake

Sissoko and now from Fairfield, Connecticut, the marvellous moving

sound, the beautiful voice of the one and beautiful John Mayer.

# River's strong you can't swim inside it

# We could string some lights up the hill beside it

# You could drive with your headlights out

# Cos a little bit of summer's what the whole year's all about

# Cos a little bit of summer makes a lot of history

# I got a rock from the river in my medicine bag

John Mayer with Wildfire. Now we go to this corner and enjoy a band that

is getting looks -- lots of acclaim of late. They are London grammar.

# And I'm so damn caught in the middle

# And I'm so down caught in the middle

# And if a lion, a lion roars, would you

# Not listen, if a child a child cries?

# Excuse me for a while turn a blind eye

# With a stare caught right in the middle

# And if a lion, a lion roars would you

# Not listen if a child a child cried?

Thank you, London Grammar. From their album If You Want. Our next

artist first came on the show in 2010 with her debut album. We

enjoyed it so much we asked her back. She has a new album, Back To

Forever. We welcome Lissie. # With my blue jeans on

and you stuck in my head # I take it all back

I don't mean what I said # Dead roses on the bedside table

and a movie on # I've been here for days

so what's a couple days more? # I've been sleepwalking

dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right # We've been cheap thrillin'

and freewheeling # Till I get blue in the face

while you're waking the dead # Life is so incomplete

everywhere I look # And every set of eyes I meet

read me like a book # They can tell I've been

sleepwalking dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'

and freewheeling # Taking your worries

and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking

dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right # Have you been cheap thrillin'

and freewheeling # Taking your worries

and giving them up to the night? # I've been sleepwalking

dreams talking # Telling myself that soon

I will be feeling all right. # Thank you, Lissie. Now, I'm very sad

to report on Sunday a wonderful artist and a regular visitor to this

show died. We're going to show you a clip of one of his great songs

followed by some of his thoughts on that song. This is from about ten

years ago, and if you go to our website, you can see this and much,

much more of the late, great Lou Reid.

Just a perfect day. # Drinking Sangria in the park

# And later when it gets dark # We go home

# Just a perfect day # Feed the animals in the zoo

# Then a movie or two and then home. # Ah, it's such a perfect day

# I'm glad I spent it with you # Oh, such a perfect day.

# You just keep me hanging on. # You just keep me hanging on. I

suppose the question must be what was the perfect day you were writing

about in that song? That's what everybody wants to know. If I had

had a perfect day, I never would have written about one! I wouldn't

know a perfect day if it bit me. Well, you wrote very well about it.

Lou Reed, thank you very much. Featuring there in the background,

by the way, Anthony Johnson, one of his first performances ever with us,

and the lovely Tai Chi instructor there, so let's hear it for the

late, great, marvellous Lou Reed. APPLAUSE

Now, back to the land of the living, and I'm delighted to say they have

reformed, and they're here live for you now, Graham Parker The Rumour.

MUSIC: "Long Emotional Ride" Graham Parker and The Rumour

# Got to observe everything from a distance

# But lately I've been feeling things

# Maybe I'm just getting old or somethin'

# But something broke down my resistance

# But now I wanna hear what other people say

# I thought I dreamed it but it was real

# I realised I'd been surrounded by friends

# I once had my head filled with things

# Long, long emotional ride

# On this long, long emotional ride. #

APPLAUSE The beautifully reformed Graham

Parker The Rumour with Long Eemotional Ride from Three Chords

Good. The next artist we're going to introduce you to is the master of

the Mollian Hop. He's really the master of it. We welcome Ballake

Sissoko. Thanks to Ballake Sissoko. Thanks to

all of our guests this evening. Thank you, Lissie, thank you, Graham

Parker The Rumour. APPLAUSE

Thank you, London Grammar. APPLAUSE

Thank you, John Mayer. . I will be back at 11.00pm on Friday with more

from all of our guests, and there's more, of course, of dear Lou Reed on

our website. Now, The National. MUSIC: "Don't Swallow The Cap"

The National # Pull out breaks

behind the houses # I don't see

what's strange about this # When it gets so late

I forget everyone # Don't think

anybody I know is awake # I see a bright, white

beautiful heaven hangin' over me # There's a time to leave

there's a time to think about # What I wanna say to

the girls at the door # But I can't get around the river

in front of me # I see a bright, white

beautiful heaven hangin' over me Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd.

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