Few shows give you an insight into the depravity and the mundanity of the great and good quite like Desert Island Discs. We’ve sifted through all 3,227 episodes (at the time of writing) to bring you a small selection of horrors from castaways past.
Just Shit Music
Gordon Ramsay with truly the worst ever selection of music, a parodic drivetime session through the consciousness of a middle-aged man:
Coldplay, Yellow
Travis, Sing
Tina Turner, Simply the Best
Kim Wilde, Kids in America
George Michael, Careless Whisper
Bryan Adams, Everything I Do (I Do It For You)
Tom Jones, Sex Bomb
Blondie, Sunday Girl
Possibly only rivalled by Nigella Lawson, with this, which reads like a sex offender’s ideal lift music:
The Archies, Sugar Sugar
Wheatus, Teenage Dirtbag
Boney M, Daddy Cool
The Mavericks, Dance the Night Away
Eminem, Cleaning Out My Closet
New Order, Blue Monday
More Kanté, Ye Ke Ye Ke
Frankie Dettori’s choices were also execrable:
Ronan Keating, Life is a Rollercoaster
AC/DC, Back in Black
Madonna, Into the Groove
Bob Marley and the Wailers, Three Little Birds
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Amazing Grace
Simply Red, Fairground
Robbie Williams, Feel
Faithless, Insomnia
General Norm Schwarzkopf; it’s an operatic blitzkrieg from the man who brought you Operation Desert Storm, with some Billy Joel thrown in for some reason:
