Sam Leith on wedding first-dance songs

The music-loving world, temperamentally, seems to divide neatly into two. There are those who spend their idle hours thinking about which songs they would like to have played at their wedding; and those who spend their idle hours thinking about which songs they would like at their funeral. (There is a third category: people who spend their idle hours planning for Desert Island Discs, but these characters exist in a separate psychological sphere and need not detain us here.)Until very recently, I...

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