‘God Save the King makes me sick’: Bobby Gillespie’s honest playlist

The Primal Scream man is resolutely unromantic and really dislikes the royals, but what does he put on at a party when ‘everyone’s had a few’?

The first single I bought
Blockbuster by the Sweet in 1973 from Soundtrack Records on Cathcart Road in Glasgow age 11 or 12, after seeing them on Top of the Pops. I loved all the Sweet singles after that.

The song I do at karaoke
I don’t think I’ve ever done karaoke. I hate hearing people murder songs. If I had to do it, I’d do You’re the One That I Want by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Primal Scream used to do it in soundchecks in the 80s.

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