The first song I fell in\u00a0love with
Baggy Trousers by Madness. I remember thinking it was the most brilliant thing I\u2019d ever heard, partly because there was a man in huge trousers suspended from the ceiling playing a saxophone on Top of the Pops. That probably helped. It was hilarious!<\/p>\n
The first single I bought
The Smurfs? I think I just asked for it rather than went out and bought it myself because I was three. Apparently I was mesmerised by both Kate Bush and the Smurfs, so I had great taste in music. The first single I bought with my own pocket money was probably I Should Be So Lucky, because I hadn\u2019t become acquainted with\u00a0the Fall yet.<\/p>\n
The song I inexplicably know every lyric to
It\u2019s weird when lyrics you don\u2019t particularly like find their way into your memory. I know more music hall songs than I\u00a0should for my age, because we were forced to sing them in drama school. I also remember the lyrics to the Hold a Chicken in the Air song from Spitting Image. I\u00a0was 11 at the time.<\/p>\n
The best song to play at\u00a0a party
Ghost Town by the Specials. It\u2019s probably the best song ever made. It\u2019s not really the best thing to play at a party, but sometimes it\u2019s nice to have a sit down and contemplate things.<\/p>\n
The song I can no longer listen to
The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams. This was the opening music they\u2019d play every night when I was on tour with the play What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton. I was understudying and assistant stage managing at the time, and the stage manager was a total arsehole. He made my life a misery. Every time I\u00a0hear this music I feel as if I\u2019m standing in the wings again and I feel physically sick.<\/p>\n
The song that changed my life
Probably The Container Drivers by the Fall. I\u00a0was\u00a0always more into comedy than music. I\u00a0found bands that took themselves really seriously embarrassing. When I discovered the Fall it was a complete revelation. The lyrics were just so funny and\u00a0mundane.<\/p>\n
The song that gets me up in the morning
Java by Bert Kaempfert. I love Bert Kaempfert. I got into him during lockdown. He gave the Beatles their big break. He was a good egg.<\/p>\n
The song that makes me cry
Across the Universe. Reminds me of my dad. He played the Beatles a lot but this one in particular makes me miss him. Also, This Woman\u2019s Work by Kate Bush. Heart-rending. Guaranteed to get me crying in seconds.<\/p>\n
The song I want played at my funeral
If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley. A\u00a0moving, uplifting song\u00a0for when the congregation is sobbing and hurling themselves on my coffin\u00a0with grief.
Diane Morgan takes part in series two of Last One Laughing on Prime Video\u00a0from 19 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first song I fell in\u00a0love withBaggy Trousers by Madness. I remember thinking it was the most brilliant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-335265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}