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Nancy Sinatra
What music are you currently grooving to?
Currently Beyoncé, Chris Stapleton, Nathaniel Rateliff, Billie Eilish and Wilco. But forever and always The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Everly Brothers and Dolly Parton. And I still love the standards – they still play that old stuff out here!
What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?
If I could choose only one, it’d be one of these three: Tony Bennett’s The Movie Song Album, Dad’s The Concert Sinatra and Johnny Mathis’s Open Fire, Two Guitars.
What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?
Probably Ruth Brown. Maybe Teardrops From My Eyes or Lucky Lips? I used to shop at Wallichs Music City at the corner of Sunset & Vine.
Which musician, other than yourself, have you ever wanted to be?
Easy. Carly Simon. She’s such a thoughtful lyricist and creates wonderful melodies, plus I love her voice.
What do you sing in the shower?
Haha! What don’t I sing in the shower?! Most of the time, it’s something that I heard earlier in the day, or something that one of my granddaughters is learning.
What is your favourite Saturday night record?
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim. It’s gorgeous, romantic, melancholy and sentimental. Which, at my age, describes a pretty good Saturday night.
And your Sunday morning record?
In the past, my Sunday morning music may have been a Smiths LP or one from David Bowie, as I spent time with my kids. These days it would be Tony Bennett’s The Movie Song Album again, or maybe Paul McCartney’s Egypt Station and Ram.
Nancy’s 1966 LP How Does That Grab You? is reissued by Light In The Attic.
Samantha Morton
What music are you currently grooving to?
Recently it’s been Ibrahim Hesnawi, the Libyan reggae artist, Lonnie Liston Smith’s Cosmic Funk and Sault, which feels very fresh and epic and pure.
What, if push comes to shove, is your all-time favourite album?
That’s unanswerable, but three that I can’t live without, in the same way as air and water, are The White Album by The Beatles, Signing Off by UB40 and Exodus by Bob Marley & The Wailers.
What was the first record you ever bought? And where did you buy it?
The first record I remember buying was Musical Youth’s Pass The Dutchie, which came with a free poster, from a market stall in Hyson Green in Nottingham. I think my brother chipped in to get it. But the first kind of teenage music that I remember buying were tapes of The Charlatans’ Some Friendly and Deee-Lite’s World Clique, which had Groove Is In The Heart on it, from Selectadisc in Nottingham.
Which musician, other than yoursel
