Eight songs Bill Gates loves to listen

What would the tech guru listen to if he were marooned on an island?

David Bowie & Queen 'Under Pressure'

"In my 20s and 30s I worked a lot, but Fridays and Saturdays we'd go out and dance, so this kind of reminds me of those disco days," said Gates.

Willie Nelson 'Blue Skies'

The night before Gates's wedding to Melinda, he surprised her with a special performance from Nelson on a beach in Hawaii.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience 'Are You Experienced?'

Gates said of this song, "Paul Allen [Microsoft co-founder] loved Jimi Hendrix. And because I was younger, he'd sometimes taunt me with the title of this song, 'Are you experienced?'" Ed Sheeran 'Sing' Gates's 13-year-old daughter Phoebe loves this song.

U2 'One'

Gates said, "When the (Bill & Melinda Gates) Foundation was just getting started around 2000, Paul told me that I should meet Bono. I thought a musician is not really going to understand this global health stuff. But he had thought about it, read about it, so it started a partnership, and he's been amazing."

The Beatles 'Two Of Us'

Gates said he chose this song because his "goof friend" Steve Jobs mentioned it when the two famously gave a joint interview not long before the Apple founder's death. Jobs said the song was like the journey the two of them had been on, working with each other, sometimes, as fi erce rivals.

Rodgers & Hammerstein 'How Can Love Survive?'

Gates chose this song from the Broadway version of The Sound of Music because it is one of his and Melinda's favourites. He also said Warren Buffett and his fi rst wife Susan once sang it to the couple.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Ramos, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr. and Okieriete Onaodowan 'My Shot'

This song is from the Broadway musical Hamilton. "It's about a young person saying, 'Hey I'm going to take a risk, I'm going to get out there and try something different,'" said Gates.