The final two selections are a little more on the obscure side as he picks Jimmy Webb’s ‘Galveston’ and the Willie Nelson classic ‘Always on My Mind’.

The final two selections are a little more on the obscure side as he picks Jimmy Webb’s ‘Galveston’ and the Willie Nelson classic ‘Always on My Mind’.

“David Bowie, probably my single biggest hero in music.” Gervais continues, “He’s written one of the most beautiful love songs ever. It’s called ‘Letter to Hermione’ and it’s just so stripped-down it’s just gorgeous.”

“The next track is Radiohead, ‘Bones'” says Gervais selecting the Bends song.

The title track from Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush is a “His voice is fragile, it’s like he’s worried about what he’s got to tell you but he’s going to tell you anyway.”

Concentrating on the music Gervais selects, his third choice is a classic for any British lad growing up in the seventies. “This is the Sex Pistols and ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’. When Nevermind the Bollocks came out I couldn’t believe it.

After Gervais shares his love in science and scientific pursuit claiming he “was in awe of the world,” the comedian picks his second song, Cat Stevens’ ‘Lilywhite’, a song he describes as “just beautiful”

His first pick was a classic selection “The first one I’ve chosen is Bob Dylan, ‘If You See Her, Say Hello’,” also sharing a sweet anecdote about his mother’s teaching of him as a child.