Four lists of five musicians here that I admire and have influenced me. You won’t find any smooth crooner vocalists here, or flash Harry guitarists. Orthodox singers are purely a natural talent who, in the main annoy me by not having to work to get results. I find 100mph guitar solos without melody.

There’s no drummers here either, basically because although I’ve dabbled for years on drum kits and programmed many drum machines, I’ve only recently owned and regularly played a kit, using it for recordings for only a few years. It didn’t seem right to list favourite drummers somehow.