Quentin Tarantino’s favourite songs from the 1970s

If Quentin Tarantino wasn’t heralded as one of this generation’s finest directors, he’d have a pretty good career as a DJ. Not the knob-twisting, drum-pad-bashing kind like Fred Again, but more akin to the lead character from Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity. For those unfamiliar, the character in question is a scruffily dressed crate dweller who, when he isn’t found in dingy record shops or at the front door of a lover he’s most recently fallen concerningly obsessed for, is behind the decks at a local pub playing high-brow wedding songs.

While his filmography takes centre stage, the soundtracks make pretty compelling mixtapes and showcase his ability to provide an atmospheric backdrop you didn’t know a scene required. In fact, I cannot picture Marsellus Wallace opening up a shimmering golden briefcase in Pulp Fiction without the sultry sounds of Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together’ in the background.