Desert Island discs 2015

Simply because.

Basically I like Eighties hair metal and opera! They're not so very far removed as you'd think.

Eddie & The Hot Rods – Do Anything You Wanna Do

Back from when I used to drive around blasting out my The best punk album in the world ever! tapes (Volumes One and Two) in the late nineties, this great shouty anthem to individualism.

Mozart – Non so più cosa son

From The Marriage of Figaro. Librettist and defrocked priest Lorenzo da Ponte has Cherubino articulate being a confused and horny teenage boy far better than any whiny pop song ever could.

The Chanukah Song

Performed by Neil Diamond, obviously. Adam Sandler's original is here.

Is it Benjamin Britten or is it Sid James?

A jug in a bedroom gently shakes…

• James

  

• Britten

  

Update. Robert Ross points out a coincidence:

@HughJampton I've *always* thought that. Both are 1913~1976 too. Spooky! ;-)

— Robert Ross (@RobertWRossEsq) November 16, 2013

Storm Large

This is some range.

Rock singer.

Substitute singer with Pink Martini

Leonid Kharitonov & The Red Army Choir - The Cliff

One of Kharitonov's first solo performances, at age 32 after twelve years in the choir of the Ensemble, was a concert at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses attended by top government officials. As a chorister he was aware of the primary function of the bass part. Whether the part actually does...

Kenny Ball - ‘So Do I’ Live

RIP Kenny. My wife and I saw him playing at the Chichester Festival Theatre with Humphrey Lyttelton and a rather frail George Melly. They've all gone now.

Still crazy, half finished