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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)

 

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