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‘I can no longer listen to the punk bands I loved as a teenager’: Rob Newman’s honest playlist

The comic struggles to listen to the punk bands of his youth, while his son sings along to the Blue Nile. But which Smiths song caused his girlfriend to dump him?The first single I bought (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais by the Clash, from a record shop in the Hitchin arcade.The song I inexplicably know every lyric to I enjoyed rote-learning at school, so I learn lyrics off by heart. I particularly like Ella Fitzgerald’s version of But Not for Me by George and Ira Gershwin: “I never want to hear from any cheerful Pollyannas / Who tell you fate supplies a mate / It’s all bananas.” Continue reading...


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