Top of my Playlist: celebrity song favorites of the dead and famous

Jane Austen: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) by Beyonce

Karl Marx: Our Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil

Napoleon: Anything by Kanye West

Lord Byron: Anything by David Bowie

Gandhi: Disco Inferno . . . because I do like to boogie

Joan of Arc: the Twilight soundtrack.  Definitely Camp Edward.

Mahmoud Adinijad: Icky Thump by the White Stripes

Wait. We’ve moved into living people.  So let’s add:

Stephen Harper: What’s a playlist? (Canadians will get this.)

Silvio Berlusconi: Bad Boys by Inner Circle

and last but not least:

Barack Obama: Stuck in the Middle with You