Tom Dunne: You'd need a Wooden Heart not to be affected by some of those great sad songs
Elvis Presley's classic Wooden Heart has a tragic back story.
If you are a fan of a particular type of music – The Blue Nile, Jeff Buckley, The Go-Betweens, Joy Division – then every day is Valentine’s Day to you. February 14 is just a date in the calendar when the rest of the world catches up with you.
That’s the day they reach for the type of music, the “sad” stuff, that you spend part of every day with. “Boys don’t cry” you sing most days to the dog, the kettle, the back of someone’s head. What would these blow-ins know about heartbreak?
