All lists are subject to change on an hourly basis. They're pretty impossible really,
but I love them all the same...!
MUSiC RELATED LiSTS
Influences...
Before I started music...
Cliff Richard
Mike Batt (Wombles etc)
Abba
Elton John
Beach Boys
E.L.O.
Jean Michel Jarre
The Beatles
Barry Manilow
Howard Jones
Duran Duran
Thomas Dolby
Ultravox
After I started music...
Erasure
Scritti Politti
John Farnham
Roxette
Lightning Seeds
Keane
Jethro Tull
I'm told I sound like...
Bizarre as some may seem...
Howard Jones
Erasure
Cliff Richard
George Michael
China Crisis
Keane
Soft Cell
Coldplay
Seal
Johnny Hates Jazz
Darius
Paul McCartney
Top 20 Groups...
1. Abba
2. Erasure
3. Jethro Tull
4. ELO
5. Roxette
6. Queen
7. Keane
8. The Beatles
9. Squeeze
10. Duran Duran
11. Ultravox
12. OMD
13. Lightning Seeds
14. The Rasmus
15. Depeche Mode
16. Dollar
17. 10cc
18. Dodgy
19. Wax
20. The Wombles
Top 10 Male...
1. Cliff Richard (pre 2006)
2. George Michael
3. Nik Kershaw
4. Howard Jones
5. Thomas Dolby
6. Elton John
7. Bryan Adams
8. Michael Jackson
9. David Bowie
10. Marque
Top 10 Female...
1. k.d. lang
2. Olivia Newton-John
3. Madonna
4. Alison Moyet
5. Sheena Easton
6. Sinead O'Connor
7. Cyndi Lauper
8. Kate Bush
9. Lily Allen
10. Leona Lewis
Top 20 Albums...
1. I Say I Say I Say - Erasure
2. The Riddle - Nik Kershaw
3. Dream Into Action - Howard Jones
4. Pelican West - Haircut One Hundred
5. Out of the Blue - ELO
6. Hopes & Fears - Keane
7. I'm No Hero - Cliff Richard
8. Human's Lib - Howard Jones
9. Time - ELO
10. Super Trouper - Abba
11. The Wedding Album - Duran Duran
12. The Innocents - Erasure
13. The Dollar Album - Dollar
14. Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile - Cliff Richard
15. Free Peace Suite - Dodgy
16. On a Day Like Today - Bryan Adams
17. Dizzy Heights - Lightning Seeds
18. Joyride - Roxette
19. Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre
20. Beauty Stab - ABC
20 Songs I Never Tire of...
1. Atlantic - Keane
2. Star - Earth, Wind & Fire
3. The Day Before You Came - Abba
4. Joy - Gay Dad
5. Love You Inside Out - Bee Gees
6. Reasons - John Farnham
7. Don Quixote - Nik Kershaw
8. My Camera Never Lies - Bucks Fizz
9. Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears
10. Hold Me - BA Roberson & Maggie Bell
11. Nights On Broadway - Candi Staton
12. Love Makes You Crazy - Mike Batt
13. Wherever You Are - Wax
14. My Brave Face - Paul McCartney
15. You Came - Kim Wilde
16. Standing on the Inside - Neil Sedaka
17. Run To You - Roxette
18. Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright
19. Only Yesterday - Carpenters
20. Finally - CeCe Peniston
Top 10 Abba songs...
1. The Day Before You Came
2. The Name of the Game
3. The Winner Takes it All
4. Lay All Your Love On Me
5. SOS
6. Take a Chance On Me
7. Happy New Year
8. Hole in Your Soul
9. Me & I
10. When I Kissed the Teacher
Top 10 Erasure songs...
1. Chorus
2. Drama!
3. Man in the Moon
4. Ship of Fools
5. Breath of Life
6. Hallowed Ground
7. Save Me Darling
8. Tenderest Moments
9. Miracle
10. Storm in a Teacup
Top 10 Jethro Tull songs...
1. Dun Ringill
2. Steel Monkey
3. Jump Start
4. Under Wraps 2
5. Pussy Willow
6. Jack-in-the-Green
7. Fat Man
8. Teacher
9. Crossfire
10. Ring Out Solstice Bells
Top 10 Howard Jones songs...
1. What Can I Say?
2. Things Can Only Get Better
3. Natural
4. Elegy
5. Specialty
6. Life in One Day
7. Hunt the Self
8. Don't Always Look at the Rain
9. The Prisoner
10. You Know I Love You, Don't You?
20 songs I was obsessed with (some I grew out of)...
1. Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John & ELO
2. We Don't Talk Anymore - Cliff Richard
3. Let's All Chant - Michael Zager Band
4. Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
5. I Feel Love - Donna Summer
6. I Love to Love - Tina Charles
7. Twilight - ELO
8. Love Plus One - Haircut One Hundred
9. A Little More Love - Olivia Newton-John
10. Hey Little Girl - Icehouse
11. Instant Replay - Dan Hartman
12. Only Crying - Keith Marshall
13. Natural - Howard Jones
14. Mirror Mirror - Dollar
15. Night in the City - ELO
16. Japanese Boy - Aneka
17. Dancing in the City - Marshall/Hain
18. Assault & Battery - Howard Jones
19. Uniform - Icehouse
20. Long-Haired Lover from Liverpool - Little Jimmy Osmond
I'm told I look like...
I deny some of these !
Alan Cumming
Marc Almond
Dustin Hoffman
Griffin Dunne
Jimmy Page
Matthew Broderick
David Tennant
Roger Taylor (Duran)
Dave Gahan
Paul Young
Darius
Top 10 Nik Kershaw songs...
1. Don Quixote
2. Die Laughing
3. Somebody Loves You
4. Roses
5. The Sky's the Limit
6. You Might
7. Wounded
8. Cloak and Dagger
9. Wouldn't it Be Good
10. Dancing Girls
Top 10 Duran Duran songs...
1. Notorious
2. All She Wants Is
3. A View to a Kill
4. Friends of Mine
5. Too Much Information
6. Careless Memories
7. Sin of the City
8. Night Boat
9. The Reflex
10. What Happens Tomorrow
Top 10 Beatles songs...
1. A Day in the Life
2. All My Loving
3. In My Life
4. Paperback Writer
5. She Loves You
6. Fool On the Hill
7. Help!
8. Penny Lane
9. If I Fell
10. Here, There and Everywhere
Top 10 ELO songs...
1. Livin' Thing
2. Turn to Stone
3. Standin' in the Rain
4. Shine a Little Love
5. Tightrope
6. Poorboy (The Greenwood)
7. Ticket to the Moon
8. Confusion
9. One Summer Dream
10. Secret Messages
Top 10 Queen songs...
1. Don't Stop Me Now
2. Who Wants to Live Forever
3. Under Pressure
4. We Are the Champions
5. Innuendo
6. Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Headlong
8. Princes of the Universe
9. Brighton Rock
10. Somebody to Love
Top 10 Elton John songs...
1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
2. The One
3. Song for Guy
4. Blessed
5. Rocket Man
6. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
7. Believe
8. Made in England
9. The Bitch is Back
10. This Train Don't Stop There Anymore
Top 10 David Bowie songs...
1. Oh! You Pretty Things
2. Ashes to Ashes
3. China Girl
4. Life on Mars
5. Blue Jean
6. Aladdin Sane
7. Starman
8. Fashion
9. Love You Til Tuesday
10. Lady Grinning Soul
Top 10 George Michael songs...
1. Praying for Time
2. Fastlove
3. Waiting for That Day
4. Heal the Pain
5. One More Try
6. Amazing
7. A Different Corner
8. Outside
9. Father Figure
10. Something to Save
Top 10 Madonna songs...
1. You'll See
2. Hung Up
3. Frozen
4. Like a Prayer
5. Oh Father
6. Express Yourself
7. Who's That Girl?
8. La Isla Bonita
9. Ray of Light
10. Beautiful Stranger
Top 10 Michael Jackson songs...
1. Billie Jean
2. One Day in Your Life
3. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
4. Remember the Time
5. Beat it
6. Smooth Criminal
7. Will You Be There
8. Liberian Girl
9. P.Y.T.
10. Get On the Floor
Top 10 Cliff Richard songs...
1. Take Another Look
2. The Only Way Out
3. We Don't Talk Anymore
4. Give Me Love Your Way
5. You Got Me Wondering
6. A Misunderstood Man
7. On the Beach
8. The Day That I Stop Loving You
9. Doing Fine
10. Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?
Top 10 own songs...
Ones that I am most proud of...
NOT counting the new album yet!!!
1. Nothing Can End
2. To Be One
3. While the Innocent
4. Crazy Like a Dreamer
5. Giant
6. Like Heaven
7. Do You Remember?
8. If You Like This Music...
9. Tomorrow's Tears
10. Reality
Top 10 Roxette songs...
1. Crash! Boom! Bang!
2. Things Will Never Be the Same
3. Fading Like a Flower
4. Spending My Time
5. I'm Sorry
6. Stars
7. Dangerous
8. Run to You
9. Queen of Rain
10. She's Got Nothing On (But the Radio)
10 Artists You Might be Surprised I Like...
It's not all Abba and Erasure and 80s pop with me, Not quite anyway...!
1. Rammstein
2. Rob Zombie/White Zombie
3. Status Quo
4. Pendulum
5. Led Zeppelin
6. Poisoned Electrick Head
7. Asia
8. Yello
9. Deep Purple
10. ZZ Top
Top 10 Record Producers...
1. Alan Tarney
2. Trevor Horn
3. Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
4. Rupert Hine
5. Giorgio Moroder
6. Christopher Neil
7. Peter Collins
8. Ian Broudie
9. Nile Rodgers
10. Chris Thomas
Top 10 Classical Music...
1. Beethoven: 7th Symphony (Allegretto)
2. Massenet: Mediation from 'Thais'
3. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major (Adagio)
4. Barber: Adagio for Strings
5. Bizet: In the Depths of the Temple from 'The Pearl Fishers'
6. Grieg: Morning Mood from 'Peer Gynt Suite'
7. Rachmaninov: 2nd Piano Concerto
8. John Williams: The Penitent Man Will Pass from 'Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade'
9. Mozart: Soave Sia Il Vento from 'Cosi Fan Tutte'
10. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (Allegro)