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‘I was the only person who didn’t know the words to Coldplay’: Anoushka Shankar’s honest playlist


The musician on her love of cheesy R&B, hating karaoke ‘with a fiery passion’, and the people who have sex to her sister Norah Jones’s music

I remember my imagination would light up with the title song – I would picture a village dance, and I’d be acting it out in my living room for my mum. The song that changed my life I was at Luz Records in California and they put Teardrop by Massive Attack on. I remember being at a party in my early 30s where everyone started belting out a Coldplay song and I was probably the only person in the room who didn’t know the words.

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