Neil's Desert Island Discs choices
On February 4, 2007, Neil appeared on the long-running BBC radio program Desert Island Discs, on which celebrity guests discuss—what else?—which records they would choose to have with them if they were marooned on a deserted island (along with, presumably, the means to play those records). Neil's choices may seem a bit predictable, but only in light of what diehard PSB fans have read of his tastes and favorites through the years. To the more casual listener, they're quite enlightening:
- "Why Can't the English?" by Rex Harrison, from the soundtrack to My Fair Lady
- "She Loves You" - The Beatles
- Fantasia on a Theme - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- "Changes" - David Bowie
- "Give Me Tonight" - Shannon*
- "Good Morning, Heartache" - Billie Holiday
- "I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore" - Dusty Springfield
- First Movement of Symphony No.
5 in D Minor - Dmitri Shostakovich
Book: The Human Comedy by Honore de Balzac
Luxury item: A DVD projector and a box full of DVDsIf a big wave were to come along and wash away his music choices, the one he would save would be Dusty's record.
*Shannon's "Give Me Tonight" is, at least to this commentator, Neil's most remarkable selection. It's of course the only "dance song" in the list—well, if you don't count "She Loves You," to which teenagers had danced themselves silly a generation earlier—and I'm intrigued that he would pick this one as opposed to Shannon's far bigger, better-known hit, the drop-dead classic "Let the Music Play."
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