The singer makes his kids listen to hard rock and can’t stand Angels because Robbie Williams stole his drummer, but which song is the best to have sex to? Hint: he wrote it

The first single I bought
The first single that I’m prepared to admit to buying was Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio. My parents had the obvious Beatles, Beach Boys and Pink Floyd albums, but I can’t remember going out and buying stuff before then. I bought it from a record shop in Bristol next to a Spudulike, the kind of real shop the world’s missing.

The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
Coz I Luv You by Slade, because I cover it on tour. If you’re doing an evening of James Blunt songs, you’re going to need to throw in a cover of someone else to give the night a bit of rock, aren’t you? Otherwise, it’s going to be a pretty downtempo affair. So we chuck in a bit of Slade, because it allows me to crowdsurf.