![]() My mum became a big Bowie fan so I would steal ChangesOneBowie and listen to it relentlessly in my bedroom and think I was "the girl with the mousy hair" until I discovered bleach. My dad was more of a Stones man but he was outnumbered. My aunt was really into GI Blues, my mum would be listening to Separate Ways as she went through divorce number one, and I've come around to liking The Sun Recordings, so there's lots of different pockets of Elvis throughout my family. My earliest memory of music is my gran standing me on the kitchen table and singing Old Shep to me, which is probably one of the worst songs ever. I just really like it.' So I don't think I was quite as insightful as I ought to have been." Film&Music has asked her to choose 10 songs that represent periods in her life, so this is her chance to make amends. ![]() "Sue Lawley kept saying, 'Why did you pick this record? What significance does it have to your life?'" she remembers. When she appeared on Desert Island Discs in 2005, her luxury item was a karaoke machine. Taylor-Wood doesn't take much persuasion to get behind a microphone. Following cover versions of Serge Gainsbourg and Donna Summer, it is her third collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys, who have a studio downstairs: a slinky, deadpan reading of the Passions' 1981 hit I'm in Love With a German Film Star. This month, in addition to an exhibition at the White Cube gallery and screenings of her debut short film, Love You More, she is releasing a record of her own. Fittingly for an artist, Sam Taylor-Wood has made her passion for music visible: one wall of her airy east London studio sports framed black-and-white portraits of Johnny Cash, Shane MacGowan and the Beatles.
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