It started with "the question" and ended with "the list". If you were about to go on tour and had to choose just eight tracks to put on your Walkman, what would they be, and why?

1 Rhapsody In Blue George Gershwin "This is for the moments when I need not to speak to anybody — not that I'd be speaking to anyone with a Walkman on anyway. But with this you actually feel that you don't want to speak to anyone. I always listen to this when I'm on trains, it makes things go so much quicker, I forget where I am.

2 Heartbreak Hotel The Jacksons (single) "This is quite a lot more up. I reckon this is particularly good for Walkmans because of all the weird clashings and clangings that are going on in the background which you often miss on a stereo but you can get on headphones. One of me favourite Jacksons tracks, this one."

3 Theme tune from "Taxi Driver" Bernard Herrmann (from soundtrack LP) "This is just a beautiful piece of music, and if ever you were to share a Walkman, it would be the one you'd share it with, you know? That's the one to do it to. (Sings the theme.) That's saxophone, Tom Scott. It's great."

4 Here Come The Warm Jets Eno (track from same LP) "I love going around singing this, it always sticks in my head. It cheers me up, this, a cert to cheer me up. Maybe because of the memories it brings back from when I bought the album when it came out, a good time for me."

5 V-2 Schneider David Bowie (from "Low" LP) "This is for when I'm feeling Angry Young Man, when I'm doing me James Dean impersonations. Because sometimes I find it quite hard to get angry — I'm quite a well-adjusted person. If I listen to this I'll draw on it and build up courage to shout at someone. It's very Eno-ey too, I really like all that side of 'Low'. For Bowie to do that on the back of an album was almost like throwing a side away. Good god, what's this!"

6 Summer Breeze The Isley Brothers (single). "This is just such a beautiful track, how could you be without it (ha, ha)! I'm a sucker for this. A classic track. Inspiration."

7 Is This A Love Thing Radio (single). "It's funky! This is definitely on my Walkman compilation tape anyway, and whenever it comes on I end up dancing. Usually in a chip shop somewhere. I did actually do that in a chip shop in Sheffield, that's why I said chip shop. Bloody good band, too — people seem to ignore them a bit, although they haven't done anything for a while."

8 Theme tune from "Suspiria" Goblin (from soundtrack LP) "That is a fucking weird soundtrack, very, very frightening. The film's about witches, evil and the devil. It's incredibly creepy. You wouldn't believe this band Goblin — the sound's really good, it's basically guitars, drums, maybe a synth, and voices, five Italian hippies. But the music's really good, on the button. Play this when you've got nothing to do in the hotel room, turn the lights off, and within half an hour you decide to go and do something anyway."

Now. Backing vocals on Martyn Ware-produced Tina Turner single "Let's Stay Together". Starting writing for third Heaven 17 album — will use linked Portastudios for about 20 demos (as for "Luxury Gap"). "The only difference is that last time it was at my flat, this time it'll be at Martyn's." Studio recording to start in January '84, to take about two months.

Then. Photographer, theatre work, odd jobs, unemployed, etc. ("I had me fingers in a few pies.") Aged 15 to 17 was in five million (approx) bands which "never played outside a certain area." Played with 57 Men "who did all the London gigs", and then an early version of Huang Chung. Eventually Martyn asked "if I was happy, and I thought funny, what does he want?" Told Glenn he was leaving Human League, did he fancy singing? Six days later "Fascist Groove Thang" was recorded. "We don't hang about — there's nothing to do in Sheffield but work." LPs: Penthouse and Pavement" 1981; "The Luxury Gap" 1983.

The alternative Glenn Gregory Walkman list. "I've got a one-and-a-half hour Ennio Morricone compilation tape. He's done so much stuff you wouldn't believe it. I've a friend who collects anything he's done, about 50 albums. On some of Morricone's soundtrack things there's maybe only one track that's any good, but the compilation I've got is just fantastic: it's all the Spaghetti Western stuff, all kinds of things. The guy's a genius, he has such strange ways of doing things. Emotive music. I'd really like to work with him — we all would."