‘I can only tell which records are which by the choruses’: Carl Cox’s honest playlist

Carl Cox … ‘I actually really like Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.’ Photograph: Dan Reid

The first song I remember hearing
I used to listen to a lot of radio when I was a little tucker. Rockin’ Robin by the Jackson 5 appealed because of Michael Jackson’s high voice. We’d had the Partridge Family and the Osmonds; now we had the Jacksons.

The first single I bought