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‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist
The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso? The first song I fell in love with When I saw Night Boat to Cairo by Madness on Top ...
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The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso? The first song I fell in love with When I saw Night Boat to Cairo by Madness on Top ...
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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘At my funeral I want people dancing in the aisles to Madness’: David Gray’s honest playlist, The singer knows all the words to Grease and channels Kenny Rogers at karaoke. But which classic musician does he liken to Picasso? The first song I fell in love with When I saw Night Boat to Cairo by Madness on Top of the Pops as an 11-year-old, something happened to me on a molecular level. There was something about the way they moved. The first single I bought I Don’t Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats, from Swales Music in Haverfordwest, a 15-mile bus trip from the little fishing village in west Wales I lived in when I was eight. Continue reading…
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