"This was one of the first singles I ever bought – at Woolworths, I think. I used to go down there because they had record listening booths, but before that I could have heard it on the radio or something. Radio Caroline, perhaps? But the sheer explosiveness of that riff was enough for me… I went out and bought it."

"I must include the short story “The Enormous Radio” on my list because it’s so prescient today with iPhones, Instagram, and privacy issues."

"– for the way Duras films the inside of a house, and for the way almost all life outside the house is treated: intrusively, as news radio."

"There are some wicked arrangements by Jimmie Haskell here. The string arrangements and this diving, swooping orchestral score is something you'll hear on our new album. It's a composing style that I was enamoured by - just look at how the strings dive in and out of the lyrics. This was popular pretty much from when I could listen to radio from about 1969. I was three or four at the time. It's always been on the radio in America on oldie stations, it never stops! Especially where we live in the Catskills, we don't get alternative radio stations. The ones that do call themselves ""alternative"" play Dave Matthews."

"My main thing for music has always been the radio; that’s where I’ve heard things. Around age 5, when I was getting ready for school, my mum would get us up, and we would have breakfast in the kitchen, and the radio would be on. It would be the BBC Radio 2, which is the easy listening station. So I remember hearing a song called “If You Could Read My Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot whilst I was having my hair brushed and trying to keep still—because if you moved when you were having your hair brushed in the morning, my mother used to get in a really bad mood."