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John Martyn

John Martyn is a person from the UK, active from 1948.

Person GB 1948–2009 folk folk rock contemporary folk
TOTAL PLAYS
1,050
SONGS PLAYED
146
STATIONS
3
FIRST PLAYED
2005-02-22 14:30 · 6 Music — "Sunshine's Better (BBC session)"
LAST PLAYED
21 hours ago · Radio 2 — "Dancing"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2005 — 2026
90 68 45 23 0
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25 '26
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 855 81%
Radio 2 171 16%
Radio 1 24 2%
1Xtra 0 0%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 22:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 May You Never 199 2026-01-18
2 Solid Air 128 2026-03-22
3 Over The Hill 90 2025-09-14
4 Bless The Weather 54 2025-10-15
5 Small Hours 41 2025-02-17
6 She's a Lover 34 2021-11-18
7 Sunshine's Better 32 2025-07-21
8 One Day (Without You) 30 2018-05-15
9 Go Down Easy 21 2025-11-10
10 Head And Heart 20 2025-10-28
11 Sweet Little Mystery 17 2025-07-13
12 Couldn't Love You More 17 2025-07-06
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2026-05-20 19:40 Dancing Radio 2
2026-05-17 14:58 Lay It All Down 6 Music
2026-05-10 08:51 The River 6 Music
2026-03-22 23:52 Solid Air Radio 2
2026-01-18 15:35 May You Never Radio 2
2025-12-19 15:07 Solid Air 6 Music
2025-12-16 10:52 Solid Air 6 Music
2025-11-20 05:21 One Day Without You (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 19757) 6 Music
2025-11-10 01:15 Go Down Easy 6 Music
2025-11-09 14:18 Go Down Easy 6 Music
2025-10-28 05:45 Head And Heart 6 Music
2025-10-19 23:51 Solid Air 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

146 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
Ain't No Saint — 2 ▶
Angeline — 1 ▶
Anna — 1 ▶
Anna (live) — 1 ▶
Beverley — 1 ▶
Beverley /Make No Mistake (Sounds of thr Seventies15.10.1973) — 1 ▶
Big Muff — 3 ▶
Big Muff (BBC Radio 1 In Concert, 11 Apr 1981) — 5 ▶
Big Muff - Paris Theatre 1981 — 5 ▶
Big Muff 1981 — 7 ▶
Bless The Weather — 54 ▶
Certain Suprise — 1 ▶
Certain Suprise / Couldn't Love You More (John Peel sessiom 18th Jan 1977) — 1 ▶
Certain Suprise / Couldn't Love You More (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 19757) — 1 ▶
Certain Suprise / Couldn't Love You More - BBC Session 18/01/1977 — 1 ▶
Certain Surprise — 1 ▶
Certain Surprise / Couldn't Love You More (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1977) — 1 ▶
Certain Surprise/Couldn't Love You More (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session, 18 Jan 1977) — 4 ▶
Certain Surprise/Couldn't Love You More (BBC Session 18-01-1977) — 1 ▶
Cobbles — 6 ▶
Couldn't Love You More — 17 ▶
Couldn't Love You More - Live, Hamburg, 1978 — 1 ▶
Couldnt Love You More — 1 ▶
Dancing — 6 ▶
Dealer — 1 ▶
Dealer (Live) — 1 ▶
Devil Get My Woman - BBC Session 1973 — 2 ▶
Devil Got My Woman (BBC Old Grey Whistle Test, 23 May 1973) — 3 ▶
Devil Got My Woman (Radio 1 Session, 25 May 1973) — 1 ▶
Devil Got My Woman - BBC Session 23/05/1973 — 4 ▶
Discover The Lover (Radio 1 Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 3 ▶
Discover The Lover - BBC Session 07/01/1975 — 6 ▶
Don't Think Twice (It's Alright) — 2 ▶
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right — 1 ▶
Don't Want To Know — 16 ▶
Don't Want To Know (Htd Version) — 1 ▶
Don't You Go — 2 ▶
Dreams By The Sea — 2 ▶
Eibhli Ghail Chiuin Ni Chearbhail (Sounds of rhe Seventies 15.10.1973( — 1 ▶
Fairy Tale Lullaby — 8 ▶
Fine Lines — 2 ▶
Fine Lines (Sounds of the Seventies 15.10.1973) — 1 ▶
Fisherman's Dream — 2 ▶
Gambler — 1 ▶
Glistening Glyndebourne — 1 ▶
Glory Box — 14 ▶
Go Down Easy — 21 ▶
Go Easy — 10 ▶
Go Out And Get It — 1 ▶
Grace And Danger — 1 ▶
Grace And Danger 1981 — 5 ▶
Grace And Danger (BBC Radio 1 In Concert, 11 Apr 1981) — 3 ▶
Grace And Danger - Paris Theatre 1981 — 4 ▶
Head And Heart — 20 ▶
Head and Heart ((live at the BBC Paris Theatre 1971) — 2 ▶
Hurt In Your Heart — 1 ▶
I Don't Wanna Know — 1 ▶
I'd Rather Be the Devil — 2 ▶
I'd Rather Be the Devil (live) — 1 ▶
In The Evening — 1 ▶
Inside (BBC Radio 1 Sounds of the 70s Session, 23 May 1973) — 3 ▶
Inside (Radio 1 Session, 25 May 1973) — 1 ▶
Inside - BBC Session 1973 — 2 ▶
Inside - BBC Session 23/05/1973 — 2 ▶
Johnny Too Bad — 3 ▶
Johnny Too Bad (BBC Radio 1 In Concert, 11 Apr 1981) — 5 ▶
Johnny Too Bad - Paris Theatre 1981 — 5 ▶
Johnny Too Bad 1981 — 6 ▶
Just Now — 2 ▶
Lay It All Down — 5 ▶
Lookin' On — 1 ▶
Love of Pleasure (Maida Vale 2014 Session) — 1 ▶
Make No Mistake — 3 ▶
Make No Mistake (BBC Session 15th October 1973) — 1 ▶
Man in the Station — 3 ▶
May You Never — 199 ▶
May You Never (John Peel sessiom 18th Jan 1977) — 1 ▶
May You Never (Live at the 2008 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards) — 1 ▶
May You Never (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 19757) — 5 ▶
May You Never (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1977) — 2 ▶
May You Never - (Sounds of the Seventies15.10.1973) — 2 ▶
May You Never - BBC Session 18/01/1977 — 5 ▶
May You Never [Live on OGWT, 1973] — 1 ▶
My Baby Girl (Radio 1 Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 3 ▶
My Baby Girl - BBC Session 07/01/1975 — 5 ▶
One Day (Without You) — 30 ▶
One Day (Without You) (BBC Session 18-01-1977) — 1 ▶
One Day (Without You) - BBC Session 07/01/1975 — 4 ▶
One Day Without You (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 4 ▶
One Day Without You (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 19757) — 1 ▶
One Day Without You (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1977) — 1 ▶
One Day Without You (Radio 1 Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 1 ▶
One World — 4 ▶
Outside In — 1 ▶
Outside In (Live at Leeds) — 1 ▶
Over The Hill — 90 ▶
Over The Hill (Alternate Take) — 2 ▶
Over The Hill (BBC Session) — 4 ▶
Over The Hill (John Peel sessiom 18th Jan 1977) — 1 ▶
Over The Hill (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 19757) — 6 ▶
Over The Hill (Radio 1 Session, 18 Jan 1977) — 1 ▶
Over The Hill - BBC Session 18/01/1977 — 1 ▶
Save Some (For Me) - Paris Theatre 1981 — 2 ▶
Save Some (For Me) (BBC Radio 1 In Concert, 11 Apr 1981) — 6 ▶
Save Some - Paris Theatre 1981 — 1 ▶
Save Some 1981 — 6 ▶
Seven Black Roses — 3 ▶
She moved through the fair — 1 ▶
She Moves Through The Fair — 1 ▶
She's a Lover — 34 ▶
She's A Lover (Andy Kershaw Show Session) — 1 ▶
She's A Lover (Live Recording) — 3 ▶
Sing A Song Of Summer — 2 ▶
Singin' In The Rain — 1 ▶
Singing In The Rain — 1 ▶
Small Hours — 41 ▶
Small Hours (Instrumental Version) — 3 ▶
Small Hours (Live At Regents Park, 1976) — 1 ▶
Small Hours (Live At The BBC - John Peel Session) — 1 ▶
Small Hours - John Peel Session 16/01/1978 — 1 ▶
Smiling Stranger — 2 ▶
Solid Air — 128 ▶
Solid Air (Live at Leeds) — 1 ▶
Some People Are Crazy — 3 ▶
Spencer The Rover — 10 ▶
Spencer The Rover (BBC Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 6 ▶
Spencer The Rover (Radio 1 Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 2 ▶
Spencer The Rover - BBC Session 07/01/1975 — 6 ▶
Stormbringer — 3 ▶
Stormbringer (feat. Beverley Martyn) — 1 ▶
Sunshine's Better — 32 ▶
Sunshine's Better (BBC session) — 3 ▶
Sunshine's Better (Talvin Singh remix) — 2 ▶
Sweet Little Mystery — 17 ▶
The Cure — 3 ▶
The Easy Blues — 4 ▶
The Man In The Station — 8 ▶
The Message (John Peel session 07.01.1975) — 1 ▶
The Message (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 3 ▶
The Message (Radio 1 Session, 7 Jan 1975) — 3 ▶
The Message - BBC Session 07/01/1975 — 3 ▶
The River — 1 ▶
Traffic Light Lady — 1 ▶
Under My Wing — 1 ▶
Walk On The Water — 3 ▶
Weather — 3 ▶