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Schedule for Friday December 30, 2016

Today on q: Celebrating 30 years of the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill and 10 years of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, the origin story of emojis, Oliver Jones, Andre Alexis, Thomas Dolby
Today on q: Celebrating 30 years of the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill and 10 years of Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, the origin story of emojis, Oliver Jones, Andre Alexis, Thomas Dolby (Getty Images, Shigetaka Kurita, © 2016 NTT DOCOMO, Cathy Irving/CBC, Coach House)

Today on q, hosted by Tom Power: (1) Celebrating 30 years of Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill (2) Amy Winehouse's Back to Black turns 10 (3) How the emoji became one of the most powerful tools of modern communication (4) Jazz pianist Oliver Jones looks back on his 77 year career (5) Andre Alexis's musical tribute to Toronto's Parkdale (6) A musical tour through the life of Thomas Dolby (7) Tanika Charles, Weaves and more: music from today's episode