What with news of two oldie-VS-relative-newie pop collaborations dropping today – Lana Del Rey has announced she will team up with burly blues behemoth Bobby Womack and Daft Punk with electro path-forger Giorgio Moroder – we thought it best to list our seven favourite musical marriages…

(1) Thom Yorke x Bjork = “I’ve Seen It All”

(2) Danger Mouse x Sparklehorse x David Lynch = “Dark Night of the Soul”

(3) Paul McCartney x Michael Jackson – “Say Say Say”

(4) Madlib x MF Doom = Madvillain

(5) Sunn O))) x Dylan Carlson (Earth) = “Alice”

(6) Ella Fitzgerald x Louis Armstrong = “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”

(7) David Byrne (Talking Heads) x Brian Eno = “Mea Culpa”