Walter Benjamin asks "What form do you suppose a life would take that was determined at a decisive moment precisely by the streetsong last on everyone's lips?"1
A Radio 4 announcer writes "London Calling, by The Clash, did it for me".
Ian Paisley, Jr shouts "I am Curious Orange by Mark E Smith and his merry men set my life on its anachronistic course".
Cloud says "This Charming Man, by The Smiths, and I'm still pushing my punctured bicycle up a hillside, desolate".
1: Walter Benjamin, SURREALISM, The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia,1929.
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