The first song I fell in love with
Only You by the Flying Pickets – at least according to my mother, who says [my twin brother and bandmate] Ryan and I would sing along to it on the Christmas Top of the Pops. We now use it as our walk-on song and it makes my mum quite emotional.The first single I bought
Somewhere in My Heart by Aztec Camera, from Boots in Wakefield in 1988, after hearing it at the disco on a holiday at Pontins in Morecambe.The song I do at karaoke
Tarzan Boy by Baltimora has had a second life after appearing in Stranger Things, but I’ve been doing it since it was still relatively obscure. The best bit is when you get to the chorus and the lyrics are just “Oh-oh-oh”, screen after screen.The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
Ryan and I listened to Size Isn’t Everything by the Bee Gees religiously on cassette when it came out, so the lyrics to For Whom the Bell Tolls have been ingrained in my brain since 1993.The best song to play at a partyBastards of Young by the Replacements, because it’s exciting and raw but has more meaning than some dumb, get-your-rocks-off thing.The song I can no longer listen to
