After 13 years in the business, James Warren, had his first hit in the summer of 1980 with a song he wrote in minutes.

It has since reappeared in the charts regularly in multiple reinterpretations, becoming a modern-day standard. Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime's simplicity and directness has seen it enthral artists across numerous genres -  reggae, jungle, shoegaze, plainsong, you name it - in covers from Beck, Baby D, Erasure, Glasvegas, The Dream Academy, The Cantemus Girl's Choir, Richard Thompson and many, many others. It has been used in numerous movies and TV shows, and turned up most recently during the One World concert for the COVID-19 crisis being sung by Italian superstar Zucchero.  

Recorded in Spring 2020 during the lockdown. 

A playlist to accompany this episode can be found at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0brHNisWA6scsHZcLjdGKG?si=p9eBZ01KQSKLVX8eMYSxXw