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If you\u2019re like me, then you might well have an annual tradition around this time of year that necessitates watching all eight Harry Potter movies back to back, usually between Christmas Eve and New Year, while getting demonstrably fatter and marvelling at how bad the acting was in the first film (understandably given Daniel Radcliffe<\/a> was 11) and how good he was by the end of it all. <\/p>\n So good, in fact, that you can\u2019t imagine anyone else being the boy wizard, which will make the success of the forthcoming HBO series an interesting one to gauge. Radcliffe is Potter, simple as that<\/a>, and it will take some serious on-screen magic to change opinion. Since he finished those eight films, which will surely, rather like Star Wars, go on to be watched for decades to come, he has carved out an impressive career blending theatre with some brave film choices. <\/p>\n You only have to see a film like 2010\u2019s Swiss Army Man (flatulent corpse used for transport) or 2019\u2019s Guns Akimbo (man has pistols grafted to his hands) to know Radcliffe obviously takes some delight in doing the unexpected and that\u2019s also reflected in his musical preferences, which take in the godfathers of punk, a famously irascible 1960s legend and a pair of early 2000s warring indie lads. <\/p>\n Speaking to radio station KCRW about his favourite tracks, Radcliffe highlighted the Sex Pistols as one of the most important band in history, albeit slightly hyperbolically, picking their song \u2018EMI\u2019 and saying: \u201cIn my opinion, and I can and will get flack for this I\u2019m sure, but in my opinion they are as important as The Beatles in terms of what they did for British music\u201d. <\/p>\n