Doncaster rocker Yungblud talks about the songs that shaped his life

Doncaster Free Press

The city singer, whose real names is Dominic Harrison, has spoken about the musical tracks which have defined his life in an interview with the BBC.

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00:00Hello, I'm Youngblood, and these are the songs of my life.

00:04Music has always been such a massive, fundamental to how I would feel.

00:09Me old man at a guitar shop in Donny.

00:11Music was all around, inevitably, and I loved it.

00:14I thought it was the purest form of magic ever since I was like two, so, yeah.

00:19Absolutely can remember it.

00:21HMV, 20 quid, What's the Story, Morning Glory, on CD.

00:24What's the story, Morning Glory?

00:28Me dad had already had it, but I think when you buy an album, you can kind of like, oh, that's mine.

00:33You just like scratch it, you know what I mean, we'll put it back in the case.

00:36I'll take it out of the car and throw it in like a glove compartment or something.

00:39So I was like, nah, not that.

00:40Me grandad brought me up on like classic rock, like Zeppelin and Yardbirds and Pink Floyd,

00:47but me dad would bring me up on stuff like Stone Roses or Cast or Pulp or Oasis, so it was cool, man.

00:58Always Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple, because that's just like the cliche,

01:02but I remember I was obsessed with Iron Maiden and I really wanted to learn the Trooper.

01:08It took me ages to learn it, but when I finally mastered it, I was like buzzing about it.

01:16So it was like Smoke on the Water, but then like shortly followed by the Trooper by Iron Maiden.

01:26It would probably have to be something with energy.

01:30I'd probably love Love Sick Lullaby.

01:32I'd probably love Oat for the Underrated U.

01:37I'd probably love Tim Pan Boy.

01:43Probably a bit more of the stuff of the energy.

01:52Wow, at the minute I'm bumping Iggy Pop, Search and Destroy.

01:56London Tapes when the Stooges made that epic,

02:03or Bowie when he went to Berlin and made Heroes.

02:06Oh, we can be heroes

02:08Just for one day

02:13Bittersweet Symphony by the Berg.

02:19Honestly, we just got to play it on Live Lounge and I was like, I'm gutted.

02:22I didn't, honestly, it hurts me that I don't get to sing it on stage for the rest of my life.

02:38100% to be honest, depends on if it goes down well.

02:42If it goes down well on the internet, I'd probably play it all summer.

02:44I can't change my mould

02:46No, no, no, no, no

02:53What song makes me cry?

02:55I'm going to give you a new one.

02:56I'm going to go off-piece, because I could say Iris by the Google Dolls, but everyone says that.

03:00Back to Me, the Marias.

03:01It's a really poignant song for heartbreak.

03:06And I love that song.

03:07In my sad boy era.

03:08Be there in a hurry

03:10Baby, come back to me

03:13I'll get you.

03:17My favourite song from my new album would probably be a song called Ghosts.

03:22It's got a three and a half minute outro.

03:24It's literally built for a stadium, so I can't wait to play it.

03:28It makes me feel alive.

03:29It makes me feel an unexplainable emotion like songs like Bittersweet Symphony or Heroes or With All Without You, You Too.

03:36Would make me feel we really tried our best to kind of capture that on this album more than ever before.

03:43And I think we succeeded.

03:44So I can't wait for you to hear it.

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