‘I’d turn that off if I was having sex!’: Joanna Page’s honest playlist
The Gavin and Stacey star associates Paul Weller with dolphins and doesn’t think Fleetwood Mac are sexy. But who does she swear along to to in the car?
The first song I fell in love with
Wild Wood by Paul Weller, when I was in the National Youth Theatre of Wales, staying away from home for the first time, spotting dolphins in the sea in Aberystwyth.
The first single I bought
My grampa bought me Joanna by Kool & the Gang and Mickey by Toni Basil from Woolworths in Swansea. When I got older, I bought Push It! by Salt-N-Pepa, which I played on the big silver record player in the living room.
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