So can I assume there aren't many sport fans on RR, then? Well, thanks for joining in anyway. I promise there won't be any more football talk.
As you know, this column is a martyr to topicality, so this week's theme is songs about fathers. This is certainly not the same as songs for fathers, which, if the dreadful Father's Day compilation industry is to be believed, are either by Mike & the Mechanics (for yer classic rock dads) or Ocean Colour Scene (Britpop dads), and are enough to put you off ever having children.
No, what we need is songs about fathers, whether heroic, villainous or somewhere in between, from My Old Man's A Dustman and Coal Miner's Daughter to Papa Don't Preach and the grumpy sod threatening to take away the T-bird in Fun Fun Fun. Of course you can also have singers who are dads themselves. But not Daddy Cool. Or Father Christmas. Or Fathers of the religious variety.
Deadline for recommendations is Monday 1pm. The archive of previous columns is accessible here, and you can also see an A-Z of every single song that has appeared in the weekly playlists.
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