Don’t you hate people who hate Valentine’s Day?

Those joyless souls who regard it as tacky, naff and horribly commercial. They have a point but aren’t they missing a much bigger one? Its good outweighs its bad – impulsive acts of love and kindness are carried out, relationships started, children conceived. People all over the world owe their very existence to Valentine’s Day, so let’s embrace it. Big time. Five truly romantic records – one for each day between now and Friday, starting with one of the schmaltziest but most perfect pieces of popular music ever recorded.