09-09-2024 08:00 via theguardian.com

‘I fancied Matt Goss. When Will I Be Famous? was an awakening’: Gok Wan’s honest playlist

The writer and presenter does a mean Elvis impression and secretly loves Guns N’ Roses, but why does Joni Mitchell make him cry?The first song I remember hearingMy parents owned a Chinese restaurant in Leicester so we’d spend all our time there as a family. Music was a big part of family life, and they would subject us to Elaine Paige, Matt Monro, the Carpenters and When a Child Is Born by Johnny Mathis, which became the soundtrack to our youth.The first single I boughtI remember fee
Read more »