I was a miserable skinny smelly teenager when "Sign O the Times" came out. I was probably wearing all black clothes, and I had long hair (I had hair in those days!) and no doubt I was probably sitting on my bed forlornly plucking my guitar (that's not a metaphor) and wondering why no one understood me and why strange new hair was growing on various parts of my body. I was probably writing really pathetic poetry and stuff too.

Okay so I made that up, I wasn't that much of a wuss when I was an adolescent! I was into hiphop, I was never a goth or a whiney metal fan!

But I do remember hearing "Adore" for the first time... it had immediate impact, blew my ears away. I just thought it was such a great way to finish up the album so perfectly. And no doubt I was mentally applying all those smoochy lyrics to whatever unfortunate girl I had my eye on at the time.

In fact I'm pretty sure I've ripped off those lyrics for a valentines card at some point. Thanks Prince!