MUSIC: Spotify Sunday – From Nina to Corinne

The Times’s Sathnam Sanghera is one of Britain’s most acclaimed columnists and the author of the wonderful volume of autobiography The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton – and we are thrilled to welcome him as the latest contributor to Spotify Sunday. You can follow Sathnam on Twitter here and visit his website here – Scott Jordan Harris

I can’t make my mind up about Spotify. On the one hand, for someone who grew up making mix tapes by recording music from the radio – lying in wait for certain tracks to be broadcast like a detective on a stakeout, and producing compilations that consisted of little more than fragments and snippets of songs, often interrupted with the moronic musings of Radio 1 DJs and voices telling me to come downstairs for chapattis – it is a miraculously simple way of discovering and sharing music.