Graham Coxon: ‘I saw Robbie Williams and Danny Dyer doing Parklife. It's flipping bizarre'
The first single I boughtRoxanne by the Police, from Lion Records in Colchester.
The song I do at karaokeBlue Eyes by Elton John. I saw a clip of Robbie Williams and Danny Dyer doing Parklife. It's flipping bizarre, although I do like Danny Dyer. That song is overplayed now. People want to have a knees-up, like Knees Up Mother Brown or Roll Out the Barrel.
The song I inexplicably know every lyric toBat Out of Hell by Meat Loaf. Come to think of it, I've probably done that more times at karaoke than I have Blue Eyes.
The best song to play at a partyI recently rediscovered New Frontier by Don Fagan after finding it confusing the 80s. Now I have to have it on four times in a row. It's got sinister, sarcastic lyrics and an amazing groove.
The song I can no longer listen toAnything by the Carpenters, apart from Goodbye to Love. The rest makes me feel as if I've injected acid and sugar, which makes me sad because of the tragedy of the Carpenters.
The song I secretly like but everyone I hateI don't really admit to liking Barbra Streisand, even though Evergreen is beautiful. I've also only recently been able to palate Abba and got obsessed by Lay All Your Love on Me.
The song that changed my lifeWhen I was teenager, getting into Van der Graaf Generator, Caravan, Matching Mole and Robert Wyatt, Ladies of the Road by King Crimson changed my life, because it was so odd. I was learning the sax, as well as the guitar, and it's got the filthiest tenor saxophone solo ever.
The song that gets me up in the morningMy dad had Blow By Blow by Duke Ellington on vinyl. Paul Gonsalves's sax solo cuts across the rest of the album. I thought it was so out there, like free bebop getting freer. I still listen to it every morning.
The song that makes me cryI've got three. I tested them this morning. If You Go Away by Scott Walker. The Way Love Used to Be, and Moments, both by the Kinks. When I listened to The Way Love Used to Be, the lump in my throat was pretty hefty. So I think that has to win.
The song I'd like played at my funeral
It was going to be I'm Your Man by Wham! but I don't want people chucking at my funeral. I want them to be in emotional agony. So Inheritance by Talk Talk.
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