LNL Midnight Mixtape: Flying

Midnight Mixtape: Flying

On the midnight mixtape, Tony Livesey was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (06/02/2025) with Songs that reference flying! Idea for the theme came from an Tony Livesey interview with Captain Concorde Brian Walpole.

Songs in contention

• Status Quo - Paper plane
• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
• Nina Simone - Feeling good
• Oasis - Supersonic
• Foo Fighters - Learn to fly
• Spandau Ballet - I'll fly for you
• Bill Conti - Gonna fly now (Rocky)
• Bob Marley - 3 little birds
• Divine Comedy - Tonight we fly
• Steve Miller Band - Fly like an eagle
• David Bowie - Space Oddity
• Beatles - Back in the USSR
• John Denver - Leaving on a jetplane
• Mary Poppins - Let's go fly a kite
• Jam - Butterfly Collector
• Lenny Kravitz - Fly away
• Byrds - 8 mile high
• Cast - Flying
• Pink Floyd - Goodbye blue sky
• INXS - Never tear us apart
• New Order - Jetstream
• Elbow - Weather to fly
• Harold Faltermeyer - Top Gun
• Church Party - Bella donna
• Randy Crawford - One day I'll fly away
• 10cc - I'm Mandy fly me
• Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings
• Rod Stewart - Sailing
• Frank Sinatra - Fly me to the moon
• Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA
• Buffalo Springfield - Flying on the ground is wrong
• Iron Maiden - Aces high
• Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite
• Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire
• Tom Petty - Learning to fly
• Laurie Anderson - O Superman
• Cramps - Human Fly
• Neil Young - After the goldrush
• MIA - Paper planes
• Madness - Wings of a dove
• Westlife - Flying without wings

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Bill Conti - Gonna fly now (Rocky)
2. John Denver - Leaving on a jetplane
3. Bette Midler - Wind beneath my wings
4. 10cc - I'm Mandy fly me
5. Cramps - Human Fly
6. Oasis - Supersonic

[Side 2]
7. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
8. Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire
9. Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA
10. Rod Stewart - Sailing
11. MIA - Paper planes
12. Divine Comedy - Tonight we fly
Hidden: INXS - Never tear us apart

Previous Appearances

From the original midnight mixtapes, 6 acts had never been on before. They are Bill Conti, Bette Midler, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Miley Cyrus, Rod Stewart and MIA

• 8: Oasis
• 6: Divine Comedy
• 4: 10cc
• 2: John Denver
• 1: Cramps, INXS, Public Service Broadcasting