‘No Jacket Required would be the soundtrack of hell’: the Rev Richard Coles’s honest playlist
by As told to Rich Pelley from World news | The Guardian on (#5TV6A)
The former Communard says he knows every word to Jesus Christ Superstar - what else does he listen to away from the pulpit?
The first song I remember hearing
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, from a multi-coloured vinyl kids' album. I liked it so much, I dressed up like the kid in the John Lewis advert and danced around the sunroom to the song in a bedspread and headdress to entertain my mother's knit and natter group, but they just looked puzzled.
The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
I grew up in Kettering. We didn't have culture. The nearest we got was Andrew Lloyd Webber. I went to see Jesus Christ Superstar, got the album, then the sheet music. So I probably know every word.