If you’ve picked up my book Love Songs for Sceptics, you’ll have seen that each chapter is named after a song. It was a lot of fun coming up with hits whose titles matched the theme of each chapter. Some came to me immediately, while others needed a little more thinking time. Each one has a bit of a story behind it so I thought it might be fun to explain the reasons for choosing the three that I think work the best.

The First Cut is the Deepest This was my immediate choice for chapter one bec...