Another curious little appearance came from David Davis in 2008. He's the guy that lost out on the Conservative leadership to Cameron. Sort of a small-C conservative, Davis is known to be a relatively likeable chap, but his musical choices were those of a privileged man going through a serious crisis. His first choice was Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D major, which nobody has ever heard, ever. But it was his second choice that made us all spit out our coffee. GET THE PARTY STARTED by PINK? What the hell was he thinking? Only school children like that song, and even then it's only the ones with no taste. Phil Collins and Dire Straits were to follow. Horrendous.

Boris Johnson eh? Good old Boris. Such a ridiculous little man, with an equally curious taste in music. The Mayor of London's appearance on Desert Island Discs in 2005 threw up a couple of decent choices, including Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles, Soul Limbo by Booker T. & The MG's and Pressure Drop by The Clash. Of course all of that good work was undone when he uttered the immortal phrase 'Brown Eyed Girl'. Van Morrison has approximately 50 songs better than Brown Eyed Girl - there is no possible reason for that track to be anyone's favourite eight songs of all time. No reason whatsoever - apart from maybe if you're Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, or, uh...Boris Johnson.

Boris JohnsonBoris Johnson - Brown Eyed Girl? Really?

Blair! It's only Tony Blair! One of the most polarising politicians of his generation appeared on the show in 1995 - one year before he became Prime Minster. On the whole, his choices were decent if unremarkable. Claude Debussy's Clair de Lune? Shut up Tony. In My Life by The Beatles? Fine. Fourth of July by Bruce Springsteen? Great!

Nick Clegg, what are you doing choosing Shakira's Waka Waka, mate? The Deputy Prime Minister sat down with Kirsty Young in 2010 to discuss his favourite tunes and chose the Colombian singer's World Cup tune as one of his best. We have no idea why. 

To be fair to the Liberal Democrat, he came up with some goodies, including Radiohead's Street Spirit, Prince's The Cross and David Bowie's Life on Mars which are all fine in our book - for a politician.