With the G8 summit taking place at the Lough Erne Resort in Enniskillen on Monday here’s a playlist, including some oldies but goodies. It could have been all Mingus tracks but you can’t have everything. Surely the leaders can muster a disco?

1 Gil Scott-Heron ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8
2 Sun Ra ‘Nuclear War’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6qbSHKzcmI
3 Julian Lennon ‘Salt Water’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzvjuMkAEEU
4 John Coltrane ‘Alabama’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjxBuwBUEE
5 The Beatles ‘Taxman’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqK97av7I3s
6 Charles Mingus ‘Oh Lord Don’t Let them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEIx4kSSeVg
7 Gil Scott-Heron ‘Johannesburg’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvHFuJX2Ock
8 Abdullah Ibrahim ‘Mannenberg’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQ0uyqySBg
9 Neil Young ‘Ohio’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkg-bzTHeAk
10 Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd ‘In What Language’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5KGLmQD_vU

Charles Mingus above