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This playlist mirrors Oliver Marks’s decade-old rupture—glamour giving way to dread—using tense, mystery-leaning instrumentals that feel like locked rooms and overheard confessions. The vocal tracks move with the book’s emotional arc: rivalry, guilt, and the push-pull between public performance and private truth.
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20 songs
1
Ride of the Valkyries
Richard Wagner · Wagner: Works for Orchestra
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Enigma Variations, Op. 36: Variation IX. Adagio "Nimrod"
Edward Elgar · Britannia
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The Planets, Op. 32, H. 125: VII. Neptune, the Mystic: V. Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age
Gustav Holst · Holst: The Planets; Bax: Tintagel
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Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: II. Adagio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Paul Dukas · Fantasia 2000
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Mad World
Gary Jules · Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets
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Pompeii
Bastille · Bad Blood
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Samson
Regina Spektor · Begin to Hope
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Losing My Religion
R.E.M. · Out Of Time (25th Anniversary Edition)
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron · Strange Trails
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Creep
Radiohead · Pablo Honey
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On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)
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13
Let Her Go
Passenger · All the Little Lights
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14
I Will Wait
Mumford & Sons · Babel (Deluxe Version)
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Hedwig's Theme
John Williams · Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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The Entertainer
Scott Joplin · Fingerbreaker: Classics Of Ragtime And Early Jazz Piano
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Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: I. Allegro maestoso
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos.6, 17 & 21
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18
Mellomaniac - Chillout Mix
DJ Shah · The Ultimate Chillout Collection
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19
Iris
The Goo Goo Dolls · Dizzy up the Girl
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