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The Rock Years

An hour of classic rock

A red electric guitar with a white fretboard. The background behind the guitar is black.
A red electric guitar with a white fretboard. The background behind the guitar is black.

Listen every Wednesday at 9pm, repeated every Saturday at 6pm.

Join Pete Wild for an hour of the best classic rock tracks, from the likes of Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, Prince to The Rolling Stones.

Widen your musical knowledge with Quirky Corner, when Pete will play a less well-known track.

Relax with the Acoustic Break; two acoustic tracks played back to back.

All of this is tied together by Pete's encyclopaedic knowledge of the stories behind the music.

Listen to the latest show

PART ONE

  1. War Pigs-Black Sabbath
  2. No One Knows- Queens of the Stone Age
  3. In a Big Country-Big Country
  4. What About Love?-Heart

ACOUSTIC BREAK

  1. Charlie I Gotts Go- Black Star Riders
  2. Flowers for Guns- Mostly Autumn

PART TWO

  1. Ain’t Talking About Love-VanHalen
  2. Shine it All Around-Robert Plant
  3. Gloria-Them
  4. Go Now-Moody Blues
  5. What’s the Frequency Kenneth?-REM
  6. Nightclub-String Driven Thing