It takes two: the best pop duets – ranked!

As Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue’s Where the Wild Roses Grow turns 30, we count down pop’s finest two-handers, from career-revivers to celebrity meta-texts

Most pop/hip-hop collaborations don’t qualify here – commissioning a verse from a rapper to increase your single’s “reach” does not a duet make – but Lights On does. It moves back and forth between both participants, and moreover, it’s superb: a perfect evocation of the night ending before the stimulants have worn off.