Vince Tracy's Podcasts

Each week on the #coolfm #benidorm music club Vince looks at a hit year from America. How much of the influences came from UK? See which of the great USA successes feature in this podcast.

Vince the Prince runs the Sunday Cool Music Club from #coolfm downtown #Benidorm on the #costablanca in Spain. In the first part of the show Vince looks at the personalities and the stories behind the hits of this day down the years. Join the podcast and learn about the hits down the years.The rest of the show includes a featured chart of the American hits and special guests.....it can be found on Vince's website at www.vincetracy.com

SPAIN’S national Met Office has issued its first heatwave warning of 2018 and experts are warning tourists that they may struggle to acclimatise to the extreme heat. Temperatures are expected to hit at least 40ºC in some parts of the country. ..... night time ‘lows’ are expected to be 20ºC or above. ........ Hundreds of taxi drivers on Tuesday blocked one of Madrid’s main thoroughfares, Paseo de la Castellana, in an ongoing protest against what they view as unfair competition from ride-hailing services like Uber and Cabify. Spain is asking the European Union for help to manage growing migration flows in the Mediterranean. The Spanish government has requested additional emergency aid from the European Commission......money from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, which has set aside €3.1 billion for the 2014-2020 period for assistance to migrants and refugees. The recently-elected leader of Spain’s Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, has promised to “defend the borders” against the “millions” of undocumented migrants who want to enter Spain....... In UK a 19 year old admitted manslaughter over the death of Joanne Rand, who was hit with sulphuric acid as she sat on a bench in Frogmoor, High Wycom be. It is believed to be the first acid killing in the UK. ..... he was in a dispute with over a bicycle. . A woman who had sex with a 13-year-old schoolboy has avoided prison ...... Heading a ball in a soccer game could cause greater damage to women's brains than to men's, a new study has found..........The team, from the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York, says their findings show that sex-specific guidelines may need to be put in place ........

Wrestling is back on our TVs on Saturday afternoons.... I do enjoy it....when I went over to the States to work on my wrestling album for my mate Adrian Street he got me involved as his "barrister" from London...Sir Cedric Everhard Hathaway...and I had to accompany him into the ring and make "legal" decisions on various wrestling matches.... Paul McCartney has made a special appearance at The Cavern to promote his latest album....the press stating this was "where it all began"........all very excited about standing inside the famous Cavern.....I notice no-one mentioned the wonderful decision of the council at the time to knock the original place down and build a car park.....and he sent me a video of his mates singing a song I wrote about a place called Bidston Hill on Wirral...... We are awaiting a hosepipe ban which will supposedly take place on 5th of August.... responsible for all this is United Utilities who no doubt will have excuses ready for their incompetence.......under what legislation ...could be wrong but I would like to see someone challenge this nonsense.... We have discussed fake news in the past.....it has been a big news item of late.....it is a perfect way to manipulate our gullible public who believe everything they are told.......I am sick and tired of unfunny jokes about the likes of Donald Trump etc.....he WASN'T "walking in front of the Queen".....and he didn't "snub a young black kid".......we have always been a nation of sheep but modern technology multiplies the problem.......and the news channels need to get sorted... with plastic celebs off the soaps and Love Island etc.....you don't have to pay a licence fee for the garbage presented to us. As wrestling appears to be making a comeback the song this week is a gentle classic from an album I composed and produced for Exotic Adrian Street.....we started out as "Adrian Street and The Boston Crabs"....I wrote and produced two albums for him ... tracks from which made MTV and got into a film...

Officials have asked for US drones 'to observe and detect any suspicious activity' as it emerged 15 fires had started at the same time in three different areas near Athens - possibly by criminals intending to ransack homes once they were abandoned by fleeing residents

The boat tragedy in Missouri has been on the news....it was terrible....and I have always said that lifejackets should be compulsory when on water......you see people in Chester on the river in peddloes and rowing boats with no lifejackets....it only needs 3 feet of water to drown in....water has to be respected....and those who hire boats out etc should be more responsible for their customer's safety....or face legal consequences. .On the subject of the law strikes which effect hundreds of innocent members of the community should be made illegal....such as train strikes and airport strikes....I appreciate they want better conditions and/ or pay etc but to make the general public suffer is virtual blackmail....they are quick enough to pass stupid laws regarding racism and sexism .... .......... Sir Cliff has been interviewed regarding his case against the BBC.......the BBC seem to think they have the right to ruin lives with no justification and just walk away.......naming people without any evidence of a crime?...freedom of the press?....don't make me laugh...what happened to "Innocent until found guilty"?........I would celebrate if Cliff bankrupted the BBC.... I was browsing through Facebook and saw a photo of Donald Trump walking in front of the Queen...alongside a photo of Obama standing alongside her....with all the usual stupid misguided comments from idiots who obviously haven't seen the full video of the event where the Queen actually shows Trump where to stand.......and on another occasion I nearly caused a riot with a comment I made about The Beatles at our local golf course.....some chap was saying what a wonderful song Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles was....to which I replied it wasn't the Beatles...it was Paul and a string quartet arranged by George Martin... ...the P.C.Brigade have struck again....Punch and Judy shows are too violent for our little cherubs....how long have these been going?...300 years?......because it's rubbish....like circuses...never saw the point. The song this week is one I wrote as a tribute to a guy I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with...Bobby Vee....I opened two shows for him back in 2005 and got to know him....he was the nicest fellow you could wish to meet...

We flew by Ryanair from Alicante Airport. This airport has changed immensely since the days when we first arrived in Spain. From a rather small airport it has expanded year on year and after we had travelled one year from a rather small Alicante airport we had returned from America to a huge improvement in both size and quality. This facility has now improved almost every year that we’ve lived here. After a flight duration of 2 hours and 15 minutes, we had flown over France, crossed the Channel and were flying over the Eden Project and the English China Clay landscape towards Newquay Airport.

let's see if Eric thought France were worthy winners of the 2018 Jules Rimmet Trophy. Did England blow their best chance ever since 1966 by naive decision/making and what did Eric think of the VAR system?

Career Overview The 1970s: Carrack's recording career began with the progressive rock band Warm Dust between 1970 and 1972. Carrack was the keyboard player for Warm Dust Carrack and Warm Dust bassist Tex Comer helped to found the pub rock band Ace. Carrack wrote and sang "How Long", Ace's debut single and a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1975. In 1977 Ace disbanded and Carrack began working as a backing musician for Frankie Miller. This was followed by a turn as a member of Roxy Music, playing keyboards on their 1979 reunion album Manifesto. The 1980s: after leaving Roxy Music full time, Carrack issued his first solo album, 1980s Nightbird. It was not a commercial success. 1n 1981, Glenn Tilbrook recruited Carrack to join Squeeze as a replacement for long-time keyboardist Jools Holland...........

In the World Cup Spain go home losing on penalties to Russia and England go through beating Colombia on penalties. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday told NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg that a country’s contribution to global security cannot be measured simply by a spending percentage, but also by other parameters ............ A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy has drowned in a hotel swimming pool in Ibiza. SOME €23.7 billion has ‘not been spent wisely’ on Spain’s high-speed rail network, the European Court Auditors has ruled. This year’s list of the world’s 100 top restaurants was unveiled last Tuesday in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, and 13 Spanish establishments made it into the list..... “This is not a new thing. Spain has been standing out for a long time,” .... .....a reporter for the Spanish TV network Mediaset, has called out the sexual harassment against female journalists reporting from the Russia World Cup. ......... . A SPANISH pensioner has been arrested for animal abuse after allegedly .poisoning half a dozen chickens in Marbella. The 77-year-old is accused of using rat poison – to kill the birds which reportedly kept interrupting his sleep. Britain is facing a water shortage as 'high demand' saw taps run dry in thousands of homes and emergency bottles handed out, as wildfires continue to burn across the country during the heatwave. ........... Moorland fires around Bolton and Saddleworth in Greater Manchester continue to burn ...... Jeremy Corbyn's Labour is breeding 'softcore' Holocaust denial, a leading academic has warned. ..... anti-Semitism was 'embedded' in Labour. Police are searching a house in Chester after arresting a female healthcare worker on suspicion of murdering eight babies and attempting to murder six others at a hospital in the city. Penny Mordaunt has vowed to press ahead with plans to make changing gender easier despite a poll suggesting a majority of the public is opposed. The equalities minister said .... was 'overly bureaucratic'. Jan Leeming has blasted the corporation for ‘disregarding the taste’ of licence fee payers by showing ‘voyeuristic’ programmes and too much sport. .......... the public are not ‘addicted to sport’ and would prefer licence fee money to go towards high-end dramas such as Poldark The regional divide in England's childhood obesity crisis has been revealed for the first time in an interactive map which shows the link between being overweight and living in poverty.

a winter of solid rain and floods....a few weeks of sunshine and guess what....an upcoming possible hosepipe ban....the excuse is they can't treat the water fast enough to supply our needs....what a load of codswallop....they manage to get the water bills out O.K......how many staff do they have in the water industry...6?.....strange how they managed to direct water all over the country via a canal system a few hundred years ago yet they can't get it to our taps in the 21st century....wonderful. I've given up on Brexit.....I lost the plot a while ago....now nobody knows what the hell is going on....we voted OUT by a majority didn't we?....but we forgot the fat cats might lose some of their obscene fortunes so those who LOST the vote are fighting back...which begs the question why bother voting in the first place....democracy? don't make me laugh....I voted out simply because I want to live in a country which makes its own laws instead of being told what we can and can't do by some distant bunch of so called politicians who gave us the wonderful human rights and all that rubbish....as usual we are told what they want us to hear...I dread to think what we don't know.....then we have Boris Johnson and that Rees Mogg in the mix...say no more. On the music scene....I have been listening to The Beach Boys old hits which have been remastered with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra added which sounds great....I do like great orchestral arrangements and I was a huge Beach Boys fan in the 60s before they lost their way with Pet Sounds....I liked the surfing stuff which they should have stuck to....I saw them in Manchester in 1966 ... they were O.K. ... not the best musicians which is why there are session muses on the records....Roy Orbison's hits got the same treatment which was also brilliant....good pop songs never die. Last week we had a special guest at out weekly jam session....The Cheshire Cats...who raise money for children's charities...Chan Romero who was the guy who WROTE Hippy Hippy Shake....and what a delightful fella....he is now 77 and I was chatting with him about those early days...he has worked with Jerry Lee lewis...Chuch Berry..Elvis etc etc and Hippy Shake was featured in several films and was performed by virtually every rock and roll band including The Beatles and of course was a number one in many countries by The Swinging Blue Jeans.....he went on stage with his backing band and was wonderful....a true legend who has actually DONE it....not who thinks he has....love him. I do enjoy watching the Jane McDonald cruising programmes...she is very natural and the shows are very well put together....however what we are not told is how much these luxury cruises cost....it's O.K. for Janey as she not only gets it free she also gets paid....nice work if you can get it.....apparently the programme has increased her record sales and she is now outselling Beyonce......at least she deserves her success as she has taken the tough route to get there...she can therefore handle it all...unlike the modern instant famers who vanish after a few weeks and are left in the gutter wondering what happened.....fame requires a lot more than performing...you need to get a grip of the business side if you want to survive.....it definitely aint "a dream come true Simon" The song this week is called "Mersey Man" and is a tribute tour wonderful river.....I never tire of walking along the promenade on the Wirral side and enjoying it's many moods.....it always has been a part of me.

Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez ...... is planning to meet personally with Catalan premier Quim Torra, a hard-line separatist, on July 9, in a move aimed at ending the protracted break in bilateral relations between Madrid and Barcelona. SPAIN’S government is planning to reform a law that gives police the power to ha nd out sanctions which have been used to ban demonstrations outside parliamen t among other measures. AN 85-YEAR-OLD doctor is to become the first person to stand trial in Spain’s de cades-old ‘stolen babies’ scandal. Gynaecologist Dr Eduardo Vela will appear in a Madrid court over his alleged involvement in a criminal network.......... LAWMAKERS in Spain’s Parliament are due to discuss proposals that would see assisted dying legalised. The draft law, which would see euthanasia provisions included in Spain’s health care system, was introduced when the PSOE was in opposition in May.Prime ........ Spain´s Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, made an announcement th is week. He explained additional plans have been put in place for this summer to i nclude 5 drones with the aim of making the roads safer for all during the summer, when 89.3 million trips are forecast, 2% more than last year. Joseba Asirón, mayor of Pamplona provoked a heated reaction from bullfighting supporters. “I don’t see a Sanfermines 100% bull-free, but what I do envisage in the foreseeable future is a Sanfermines without the bullfighting,” he declared RYANAIR is set to face one of its largest cabin crew strikes to date with some 5,000 workers threatening to down the tools this summer across Europe. THE driver of the car which had its front screen smashed by an England fan during the 6-1 Panama win has said that bystanders have helped him pay for the repairs. UK Firefighters have evacuated homes which are directly in the path of a wildfire blazing out of control across Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester. Business Secretary Greg Clark was accused of ‘communicating a sense of panic’ last night as he urged big business to keep speaking out against plans for a clean break with the EU. A mugger who robbed an 83-year-old grandmother received instant justice when a cage fighter who witnessed the attack tackled him to the ground. ‘A report predicts that based on current trends, Spanish will overtake French as England’s most widely taught modern language at A-level by 2020 and at GCSE by 2025.’ John McEnroe, the American tennis champion – said he thought male and female broadcasters should be rewarded on the basis of merit, not gender. His comments come after Martina Navratilova ignited a Wimbledon pay row when she revealed in March she was paid a tenth of what her fellow ex-champion received for covering the tournament in 2017

t's all World Cup at the moment and with England actually winning couple of games... and scoring 6 goals in one of them....everyone is getting very excited....coming out with things like "we could win it !!"....how many ties have we been here before....which is why I put a bet on Germany....which I did on Friday afternoon....so you can imagine what I went through during their match that night....but as always they scored in the last second and won the game....it's all good value this time because we not only get football we also get wrestling in the penalty area....and comedy when a player gets tapped on the shoulder and falls down rolling in agony holding his leg.....but not MY boys....and we also seem to be doing well in rugby and cricket...and even cycling....hard to take in. I watched Cher on the Graham Norton Show which was a good show as they were not all talking at once for a change....she is in the new version of Mamma Mia which I hope is as good as the first one (sequels rarely are) ... she is 72 and looks good but doesn't it make you feel old...she is a great survivor whom I applaud...there was also a programme on the story of ABBA which was worth atching...it is impossible to not like their songs....they had it all and yet some of them were not happy....the songs are timeless and what was interesting they write the melody first then come up with the lyrics....I tried it once but it didn't work for me. 3.There has been a bit of controversy regarding a woman commentating on the World Cup....needless to say the feminists are up in arms....the problem is women's football is a none starter....mainly because men aren't interested in it or indeed are most women....hence the empty stadiums....if you aint got the support you're going nowhere....ladies hockey for example is extremely popular with female supporters because they can relate to it as they all played it in school along with netball etc.........and also it has taken decades for MEN to build the world cup into what it is today and it seems to me the ladies want to muscle in with no input whatsoever....I don't feel I'm being sexist it's just how it is.....what next ....mixed football???...or even mixed rugby with a sexual harassment case after ever tackle? 4.There is a move afoot to ban mobile phones in the classroom.....imagine us lot in class with a phone...we'd have thick ear for a week...to me there is only one way to solve school behaviour and that is to have a solid contract with clearly laid out rules and regulations as to what is and is not expected from pupils attending that particular school and laying out the consequence of misbehaviour....and to make the parents totally responsible for their children.....which the parents SIGN and agree to.....thus any breaking of the rules would constitute breach of contract......problem solved.....nowadays the teachers have their hands tied and some kids think they can get away with murder. 5.It was 8 years ago I played my first concert with m guitar hero James Burton who has backed many big stars including Elvis...and he was lead guitar on Ricky Nelson's records in the 50s and 60s....the song this week is a tribute to Ricky which I wrote from the heart and included titles from his hits.

Angela Merkel has been given just two weeks to find a Europe-wide agreement over the migrant crisis after receiving an ultimatum from her coalition partners. Ships carrying a total of 630 African migrants have arrived in Spain’s port of Valencia after being refused by Italy and Malta. Spain’s new Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has promised free healthcare and says it will investigate each asylum case. "It is our duty to help avoid a humanitarian catastrophe and offer a safe port to these people, to comply with our human rights obligations," he said earlier this week THE Spanish government has unveiled plans to make more than 500km of toll r oads free to use across the country. Inaki Urdangarin, the Spanish king’s brother-in-law has been jailed after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. He was sentenced to five years and 10 months of prison time for embezzling nearly six million euros between 2004 and 2006 from a non-profit foundation he headed on the island of Majorca.He will be held at Brieva prison, chosen by Urdangarin, which is a small facility with less than 100 inmates just North of Madrid. A LUXURY Benidorm apartment block plans to ban holiday rentals in its building . THE Guardia Civil has warned tourists heading to Magaluf of a 20-strong teen g ang that is robbing drunk holidaymakers and attacking towards those who resist . The sun shined down on the Queen in the UK as she left St George's Chapel, i n Windsor Castle, to cheers from crowds after attending the annual Order o f the Garter Service. The PM pointed to the care given to terrorism victims and her own experience o f coping with diabetes as she vowed to turn on the spending taps over the next five years to improve NHS services. A taxi driver from Hampstead Heath, north London, was flying from Luton Airport to Skopje, Macedonia, on Sunday morning when he ordered a 4.50 euro 'turkey ham' roll and a bottle of water. A foreign thief who was deported from the UK for shoplifting waltzed back past border guards and resumed his life of crime, a court has heard. Eriks Gindra - w ho has racked up convictions in Nottingham, Doncaster, Leeds, Barnsley and H uddersfield - was kicked out of Britain four years ago

Mike D'Abo is a legendary singer and composer. He was with #Manfredd Mann and was the chosen replacement for Paul Jones. He tells us about his life and times and now as a member of the #Manfredds. You'll know one of his great songs Handbags and Gladrags