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The actor and TV presenter smashed up his mum’s copy of Carmen as a child and now plays jazz standards to his kids, but which Green Day song reminds him of Afghanistan?
The first song I remember hearing
My mum had Carmen by French composer Georges Bizet on LP. I can remember hearing Habanera: L’Amour Est un Oiseau Rebelle, but apparently I took the record off the record player and smashed it, which might have said something about my musical taste at the time.
The first single I bought
Something Better Change by the Stranglers on seven-inch.
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