Tim Farron
MY POP LIFE
THE FORMER LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER AND CURRENT MP FOR WESTMORLAND AND LONSDALE ON HIS MUSIC OBSESSIONS…
STEVE O’BRIEN
What was the first song you remember loving?
The first single I bought for myself with my own pocket money was Dancing Queen by ABBA when I was six. But there’s a whole bunch of other stuff that I liked at the time. In the room I’m in now, I’ve got a lot of my dad’s old records. He worked in the construction industry but also DJ-ed at nightclubs. My mum would sit at home and listen to the radio and give him advice on what new stuff to play. If your parents are quite cool and into music and you’re four, five, six, you tend to imbibe what they were listening to, so there was a lot of Beatles and Motown.