32 h. ago Romesh Ranganathan: ‘I Want Your Soul by Armand Van Helden is so relentlessly catchy I’m sick of it’

The comedian and presenter would do LL Cool J at karaoke – if his family’s lives depended on it. But what song would make his funeral ‘pop off’?The first song I fell in love with Growing up, every weekend we’d visit a different Sri Lankan family’s house in London. One kid had Thriller by Michael Jackson, and I fell in love with Billie Jean. I then ripped my brother’s Michael Jackson Bad poster in a retaliation move, for which I now formally apologise.The song I do at karaoke I’ve never done it. If somebody had my family and said: “Pick a song for them to be released,” I’d still consider not doing it, before eventually settling on Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘The best song to play at a party is the one that gets people to leave’: Sananda Maitreya’s honest playlist

Stevie Wonder rocked the singer’s 10-year-old world and he’s secretly a huge fan of the Carpenters. But what novelty song did he drunkenly sing in karaoke in Japan?The first song I fell in love withI Want to Hold Your Hand and She Loves You by the Beatles are like my villain origin story. I was two years old and have no conscious memory of life before that. I can remember walking around our little apartment in East Orange, New Jersey, singing those songs.The first album I bought I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian conservative family. Remember Footloose? It was exactly like that. No dancing, no movies, no records. My aunt bought me Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants and I fell in love with Send One Your Love. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I don’t really have sex to music, it’s a bit Tom Cruise’: Miles Kane’s honest playlist

The singer and Last Shadow Puppets frontman has come a long way from buying No Limit at Woolworths, but what song can make him cry?The song I do at karaoke I don’t like karaoke, but if I’d had a few vodkas, I’d go for My Way by Frank Sinatra and absolutely smash it. I love the lyrics: “Regrets, I’ve had a few / But then again, too few to mention.” You know it’s going to be a crowd pleaser. I like the Robbie Williams version as well.The best song to play at a party Whenever I have people around, I’ll put on some Motown. It takes me back to family parties where my nan and mum would be dancing. Can’t Help Myself by the Four Tops is a great feeling of coming together. If you were wanting to feng shui the air in a room, a bar or a club, Motown makes you feel good. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Stranger Things star admits ‘everyone was worried’ as he spills concern for final season

Finn Wolfhard has admitted the cast and creators of Stranger Things had concerns about how the hit Netflix show would come to an end

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2 w. ago Stranger Things star admits cast was ‘worried’ about final season because Game of Thrones got ‘torn to shreds’

Fifth and final season to air this year in December

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4 w. ago Finn Wolfhard’s honest playlist: ‘I don’t know if I want to hear Sweet Child O’ Mine any more’

The musician and actor gives Bowie some welly at karaoke and is a lapsed G’n’R superfan. But which UK stadium indie-popsters created the first album he ever bought?The first song I fell in love withI was in my living room one fall afternoon, sick from school, aged six, and my mom was like: ‘You’ve never heard the Beatles before?’ She put on Help! the movie, then for the rest of the day, I played Help! over and over again on her iPod.The song I do at karaoke Anything David Bowie is really fun, like Fame or Queen Bitch. No one is ever going to sound like Bowie, but I just love the energy and mood. Recently I did Save Me by Aimee Mann, which I think made everyone really bored, but I had the greatest time. Continue reading...

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