The year when music came together to make a difference, Bill Hughes helps George to travel back to 1985 to experience some of the Essential Songs of that year.

Bill Hughes joins George, and they remember Doris Day,. Johnny Cash and Bill Haley among others as they look at the Essential Songs of 1956.

George is taken back to 1970 in this week's Essential Songs, as Bill hopes to bring some peace and love to proceedings.

Bill Hughes helps George look back at the Essential songs of 1981, featuring Dolly, Kool & The Gang and Diana Ross.

Bill Hughes journeys back 50 years, and makes George a very happy man, as they look at the Essential Songs of the great year in music that was 1965.

Elton John, Madonna and George Michael all feature in Bill Hughes' Essential Songs of 1990.

Bill Hughes talks Grease, the Bee Gees, as well as one of his favourite songs of all time, as he helps George through the Essential Songs from this week in 1978.

It's the year of Bill Hughes' birth this week as we head to 1955. We look at the essential songs from this week of that year. Eartha Kitt, and Tony Bennett feature.

George may not have been listening to music in the late 80s, but the rest of the world sure was. Bill Hughes takes us through the news, and music, of 1988.

George is loving it as Bill Hughes brings him the essential songs from this week in 1968.