The Music played on BBC Radio 6 Music is nothing if not eclectic. Responding to a request this evening, Steve Lamacq played Nina Simone’s New World Coming.

The opening lines might be those from any popular Song of the 1960s or 1970s. those of a certain age might compare Simone’s lyrics with those of songs like Roger Whittaker’s New World in the Morning:

There’s a new world comin’
And it’s just around the bend
There’s a new world comin’
This one’s comin’ to an end
There’s a new voice