STARTING WITH THE WORLD OF TV...
Mark Thompson - The First Cut is the Deepest (Rod Stewart), With Teeth (Nine Inch Nails), Love Bites (Def Leppard)
John Birt - Mr Blue Sky (Electric Light Orchestra), Spiral Staircase (Kings of Leon)
ITV News Channel - Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode)
Simon Shaps - Makin' Plans for Nigel (XTC)
Nigel Pickard - Why Me? (Irene Cara), You Can't Hurry (Celebrity) Love (Island) (The Supremes), Go Now (The Moody Blues)
Chris Evans - anything by Billie Piper
Graham Norton - Nowhere Man (The Beatles), You Won't See Me (The Beatles)
Johnny Vaughan - Space Oddity (David Bowie)
NEWSPAPERS
Rebekah Wade - Fight for Your Right to Party (Beastie Boys), She's Lost Control (Joy Division), Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears), Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Piers Morgan - It Wasn't Me (Shaggy), Here's One That Got Away (Style Council), I Should Be So Lucky (Kylie Minogue), Lucky Man (The Verve)
Alan Rusbridger - Take My Breath Away (Berliner)
Murdoch MacLennan - Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)
Martin Newland - End of the Road (Boys II Men)
Murdoch MacLennan, John Bryant, Simon Heffer, Lawrie Sear - Telegraph Road (Dire Straits)
The Daily Mail and Daily Express - I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Bob Dylan)
MAGAZINES
Boris Johnson - Is She Really Going Out With Him? (Joe Jackson), When the Going Gets Tough (the Tough Get Going) (Billy Ocean)
Tom Moloney [Emap chief executive] - Lost in France (Bonnie Tyler), The Heat is On (Glenn Frey)
Phil Hilton [Nuts editor] - Girls, Girls, Girls (Motley Crue)
IN THE CITY...
Kelvin MacKenzie - I Started Something I Couldn't Finish (The Smiths)
Peter Salmon - I Know It's Over (The Smiths), You Can't Always Get What You Want (Rolling Stones)
Clive Hollick [gave up a £250,000 bonus in May] - You Just Haven't Earnt It Yet, Baby (The Smiths)
Lachlan Murdoch - Papa Don't Preach (Madonna)
Charles Allen - Survivor (Destiny's Child)
Sly Bailey - anything by Cutting Crew
Conrad Black - Hey Big Spender (Shirley Bassey), Money, Money, Money (Abba), Probably a Robbery (Renegade Soundwave), Nothing Has Been Proved (Dusty Springfield)
Tim Schoonmaker [working with Aussie bank Macquarie] - Waltzing Matilda (Roy Orbison)
Larry Page and Sergey Brin - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2), anything by the Searchers
AND HERE IT IS... DAVID AND RALPH, THE ALBUM
Side D
Take Over (Jay-Z)
Two Become One (Spice Girls)
Let's Stick Together (Bryan Ferry)
Double Crossed (Dr Feelgood)
When did you stop loving me, when did I stop loving you? (Marvin Gaye)
Communication Breakdown (Led Zeppelin)
What have I Done Wrong? (Marianne Faithful)
Breaking Up is Hard to Do (Neil Sedaka)
Loser (Beck)
Leaving on a Jet Plane (John Denver)
Don't Look Back in Anger (Oasis)
Side R
You're No Good For Me (Joy Division)
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go (Wham!)
He Ain't Worth Missin' (Toby Keith)
My Way (Frank Sinatra)
The Winner Takes It All (Abba)
Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine (Bob Dylan)
Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)
AND FINALLY...
For Media Monkey we chose: Monkey (George Michael), Monkey Man (Rolling Stones), Shock the Monkey (Peter Gabriel)
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