Actor, writer, producer and musician Michael Imperioli – best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos – chooses his 13 favourite tracks, and discusses the use of music in the series. Simon Price listens in an unmarked van across the street.

The mood, and the lighting, is dark. In the back office of the Crazy Horse nightclub, a besuited Tony Soprano, head of New Jersey's Di Meo crime family, sits with his consigliere Silvio Dante sombrely chewing over their escalating war with New York. Christopher Moltisanti, Tony's troubled heir apparent, bursts into the meeting late. Failing to read the room, he wisecracks his apology with a Bruce Springsteen lyric.