Mike Skinner
English rapper
I'd like to write my funeral song.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
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Values & belief
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Failure & regret
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Time & hindsight
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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When I Fall In Love, by Nat King Cole.
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Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
Suggs
Singer
Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee. I find it uplifting, because we all suffer these things in life. Will my funeral be happy or sad? Depends who you’re talking to. Some people will be happy. A couple will be sad. But I’d like a jolly affair.
Jeremy Deller
English artist
Highwayman by the Highwaymen.
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My sister Arlene, who is 75 and on marriage number seven. I admire her hopefulness.
Not being able to have more kids.
When my first child was born – something I thought would never happen.
A mink coat in 1975 (it was the done thing then). It cost me £5,500.
Like coming home in every sense.
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