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Personal favourites? Some of these tracks don't ring true

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March 10, 2025

Over the years, the music tastes of King Charles have remained something of a mystery: not one anybody seemed in a tearing hurry to solve, but a mystery nonetheless.

- Alexis Petridis

Personal favourites? Some of these tracks don't ring true

In the 1970s, he was reputed to be a fan of the Three Degrees, which perhaps tells you more about the stuff that got played at posh discos than about a love for lushly orchestrated Philly soul.

He attended a 1982 charity gig by Status Quo and "appeared to be having a fantastic time", according to the band's late guitarist Rick Parfitt. Whether the walls of Highgrove rang to the strains of Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon and Piledriver thereafter remains unknown.

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