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‘Given enough wine I could belt out I Will Survive’: Susie Dent’s honest playlist


The novelist and Countdown sage loves Roxy Music and a certain Gloria Gaynor anthem, but which pop lothario would she queue up for tickets to see?

Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. His lament for Van Gogh in the song seems so personally painful: “Frameless heads on nameless walls / With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget.” The song that changed my life The Countdown theme tune, by composer Alan Hawkshaw, no question.

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