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‘If you don’t dance to Earth, Wind and Fire, there’s something wrong with you’: Himesh Patel’s honest playlist
The Yesterday and Station Eleven star was raised on Bollywood soundtracks and secretly admires Limp Bizkit. But which maligned indie rockers will he stand up for?
The first single I bought Before I became an indie kid and got into Arctic Monkeys, Maxïmo Park and Bloc Party, there was this explosion of British/south Asian music in the early 00s, so I bought Dance With You (Nachna Tere Naal) by Rishi Rich Project featuring Jay Sean and Juggy D from Tesco Extra. The first song I fell in love with I grew up in a village in Cambridge and we’d always have BBC Asian Network or CDs of the latest Bollywood soundtracks playing. The song I’d like played at my funeral Undercurrents, this beautiful piano piece by Dylan Phillips, the singer of one of my favourite bands, Half Moon Run.
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