Tom was part of the UK’s ITunes Celebrity playlist. Here’s Tom’s list as of 2009. The songs are listed along with Tom’s comments about them.

1. “Gimme Shelter” by The Rolling Stones: “Pure Violence, with the most painfully beautiful female vocal from Merry Clayton.”

2. “Girl from the North Country” by Bob Dylan: “It makes me think of my first love.”

3. “Cigarettes and Coffee” by Otis Redding: “Just intimacy.”

4. “Beside You” by Van Morrison: “This was an arbitrary decision, everything the man sings makes me feel alive.”

5. “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” by Pink Floyd: “My dad gave me a metal box of his old records when I was around eleven and this was inside.”

6. “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen: “Out of reach.”

7. “I Can’t Write Left-Handed (live)” by Bill Withers: “I remember my whole musical education began when my best friend played me this song.”

8. “Dropout Boogie” by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band: “There is a world where people shed tin teardrops and this is top of the download charts. It is a better place.”

9. “A Whiter Shade of Pale (live)” by Procol Harum featuring The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra & The Danish Radio Choir conducted by David Firman: “I seem to always hear this song though my stomach, it feels like when you go down a small hill quickly in a car.”

10. “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix: “Unless it’s live, I think my favourite time to listen to music is while walking. This song just seems to make the world seem more real, it needs the streets, and Dylan liked it.”