Coffee & Tea – 5th August

Happy Saturday!

Tyler and Jack back on air for another 3 hours this weekend. Can you believe we’re in August already?! Right then, on to this week’s blog:

In the news:

• Are you walking around with £51.7 MILLION in your pocket?
• Europe is stupidly hot at the moment
• The Queen likes a drink or two… or three… or four
• The Obamas’ reply to a wedding invitation
• When you miss your flight and Tinder pays for you

On this day in music:

• 1965, The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with ‘Help!’
• 1978, The Rolling Stones went to No.1 on the US singles chart with ‘Miss You’
• 1995, Take That played the first of ten sold out nights in Manchester, which were the first without Robbie Williams who had just quit the group

In your celeb birthdays, we have:

• Tom Parker, 29
• Barack Obama, 56
• Billy Bob Thornton, 62

For your trip back in time:

As requested on email by a listener; it was the brilliant Theme from S-Express as your throwback for this week. Check out the really 80s video below:

That’s it for this week. I’m back in next Saturday from 12pm, and then I’ve got 2 weeks off! Have a good week, and I’ll speak to you on Saturday.