LNL Midnight Mixtape: Don't Leave

Midnight Mixtape: Don't Leave

On the midnight mixtape, Laura McGhie was joined by Paul McNamee to look at listener selections (14/05/2026) with Songs that reference not leave!

Songs in contention

• Vanessa Hugdens & Zac Efron - Gotta go my way
• Sly & Family Stone - If you want me to stay
• Yazoo - Don't go
• Shakespear's Sister - Stay
• East 17 - Stay another day
• Communards - Don't leave me this way
• Four Tops - Walk away Rene
• Blue Nile - Stay
• Cryin' Shames - Please stay
• Jackson Browne - Stay
• U2 - Stay
• Hazel O'Connor - Will you
• Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
• Terry Jacks - If you go away
• Andrew Gold - Stay
• Wham! - Wake me up before you go
• Queen - Leaving home ain't easy
• Elvis Costello - (I don't want to go to Chelsea)
• Aswad - Don't turn around
• Clash - Should I stay or should I go
• Will Young - Leave right now
• Moody Blues - Go now
• Toto - Africa
• Terence Trent D'Arby - If you let me stay
• Chicago - If you leave me now
• KWS - Please don't go
• Tallest man on earth - There's no leaving now
• Pink Floyd - Stay
• Faces - Stay with me
• Rihanna - Stay
• Mission - Stay with me
• Sam Smith - Stay with me
• Eels - Last stop: This town
• Queens of the Stone Age - Long slow goodbye
• Suede - Stay together
• Ryan Adams - Sweet Carolina
• Them - Baby please don't go
• Chrvrches - Asking for a friend
• John Denver - Leaving on a jet plane

Final Mixtape

Here's the final mixtape!

[Side 1]
1. Yazoo - Don't go
2. Communards - Don't leave me this way
3. Shakespear's Sister - Stay
4. Four Tops - Walk away Rene
5. Blue Nile - Stay
6. Cryin' Shames - Please stay

[Side 2]
7. Faces - Stay with me
8. Rihanna - Stay
9. Ryan Adams - Sweet Carolina
10. Them - Baby please don't go
11. U2 - Stay
12. Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas

Hidden: Moody Blues - Go now

Previous Appearances

From the Livesey midnight mixtapes, 9 acts had never been on before Cryin' Shames, Faces, Four Tops (1), Jacques Brel, Moody Blues (1), Ryan Adams, Shakespear's Sister (2), Them, Yazoo (2) (Numbers in brackets featured in Colin Murray's midnight mixtapes)
Appearances of those that have been on before:

• 3: U2 -Stay
• 2: Rihanna (3)
• 1: Blue Nile (2), Communards (1)