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‘The best song to have sex to? Kraftwerk has good beats’: Mel Giedroyc’s honest playlist

The comedian, presenter and podcaster was haunted by Eleanor Rigby and can’t really handle Abba at karaoke, but which 90s dance banger makes her pine for the good old days?

I remember, pretty much every day after school from the age of five, coming home and putting on Eleanor Rigby, because I loved the storytelling. My older sister and I went halves on Bo Rap [Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen], which cost 30p on seven-inch, from a record shop in Epsom. The song that makes me cry Born Slippy (Nuxx) by Underworld takes me back to the 1996 Edinburgh festival, hanging out with my beloved comedy partner Perks [Sue Perkins], cutting shapes on the dancefloor, not giving a toss about what we looked like.

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