Double Clef FM

Type	RADIO STATION
Double Clef FM
Location	Head Radio Headquarters, Harwood, Portland, Liberty City
Genre	Classical
Styles	Opera
Appearance(s)	Grand Theft Auto III Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
Host	Sergio Boccino (1998) Morgan Merryweather (2001)

“There's none of that modern rubbish on Double Clef FM, where the songs have words.”

— Slogan in GTA III

Double Clef FM (spelt in-game as Double Cleff FM in GTA III) is a radio station featured in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories that plays classical music.

Description

The station features music from various Italian operas. In 1998, the station was hosted by Sergio Boccino. By 2001, he had been replaced by Morgan Merryweather, who appeared in GTA Liberty City Stories as one of the station's callers.

The station attempts to present an aura of "high-brow, illustrated connoisseurs", though Merryweather's dialogue displays his poor cultural knowledge, through his mentions of "reading Proust in the original Italian" and references to Fellini's "Lolita".

This is the favorite radio station of the Leone Family, Sindacco Family and Forelli Family.

Tracklist

Grand Theft Auto III

Listed here is the playlist's order in the PS2 version. Translations for the titles, at the side, in superscript.

Tracklist

Song: Preview: Notes: "Non più andrai farfallone amoroso" (You won't go anymore, loving butterfly) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786) "O mio babbino caro" (Oh, my dear daddy) by Giacomo Puccini (1918) PlayStation 2 only. "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (La Traviata “Drinking Song”) (Let's drink from the jolly cups) by Giuseppe Verdi (1853) "Chi mi frena in tal momento" (Who stops me at such a moment) by Gaetano Donizetti (1835) "La donna è mobile" (Women are fickle) by Giuseppe Verdi (1851) "Finch'han del vino" (So that the wine) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787)

Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories

Tracklist

Song: Preview: "E amore un ladroncello" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from his opera "Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti", 1790) "Anvil Chorus" by Giuseppe Verdi (from his opera "Il Trovatore", 1853) "Overture" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (from his opera "The Marriage of Figaro", 1786) "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" by Giuseppe Verdi (from his opera "Nabucco", 1842) "Tacea la notte placida" by Giuseppe Verdi (from his opera "Il Trovatore", 1853) "Vesti la giubba" by Ruggiero Leoncavallo (from his opera "Pagliacci", 1892)

Appearances

• "O mio babbino caro" is featured in all the trailers for Grand Theft Auto III. A remixed version is featured in the trailer for Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition.
• "Vesti la giubba" is featured in the Japanese commercial for Grand Theft Auto III.

Gallery

Alternate version of the Double Clef FM logo from GTA III with the slogan "None of that modern rubbish on Double Clef FM where the songs have words".

The icon for Double Clef FM from Grand Theft Auto III's audio settings.

The beta logo for Double Cleff FM that was used in promotional articles.

Trivia

• In GTA III, at one point Morgan Merryweather says "Now, more hits from the '60s... 1760s that is...". However, no music from that decade appears on the station in either game.
• The oldest pieces of music in the GTA series can be heard in this station: Mozart's "Non più andrai farfallone amoroso" (GTA III) and "Overture" (GTA Liberty City Stories), both of them are from his 1786 opera "The Marriage of Figaro".
• Even though the trailer for the Definitive Edition of GTA III uses "O mio babbino caro", the track itself was not included in the game.