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‘I used to roundly mock Bryan Adams’: Bill Bailey’s honest playlist

The comedian has come full circle on the Canadian soft rocker, but which sweary song did he miss out on playing at Reading?

The lyrics have a sense of breaking free of the joy of existence that would have burned into my mind when I was 19, leaving the West Country and heading out into the world. Beergut 100 were supposed to be playing Reading and my son was going to accompany us when he finished his GCSEs, as a rite of passage, standing in front of his mates, shouting: “Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me” at me. The song that changed my life When we played You Really Got Me by the Kinks in my school band, Behind Closed Doors, at Bridgwater Community Centre, I was allowed to do a guitar solo.

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