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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Rich Pelley

‘If I can’t have coffee, I’ll put Philip Glass on’: Katie Melua’s honest playlist

Katie Melua

The first song I remember hearing
My early childhood was in Soviet Georgia. When the communist regime broke down, western TV started to dribble in. I remember the video to I’m Still Standing by Elton John, with all the women’s legs going up and down, thinking: “My God. What is this?”

The first single I bought
Spaceman by Babylon Zoo, when I was 10 or 11, when I was living in Belfast. That song was humongous.

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