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If you had only one day left, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid?
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Philip Oakey

Singer and songwriter; frontman of the Human League

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I would like to have read all the novels of Charles Dickens. My dad always said he was the best novelist in the English language, and I think I should work out if he was right or not. He usually was right about those things.

Clash, Last Day On Earth, 26 April 2011 source ↗

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James Blunt Singer, songwriter and musician
I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 1 May 2017 source ↗
Jimi Tenor Composer and musician
It would be too late to write my autobiography. I guess I would drink coffee and talk with my friends. Hopefully we could do some jamming as well that would be recorded. I think it would be quite an emotional moment. I would definitely be playing flute. Flute is the instrument of death in a way.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 16 September 2008 source ↗
Andrew W.K. Singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter
An extremely large amount of partying. Just the hardest partying anyone has ever done, ever. Going out in a blaze of burning party fireball glory. Beaming, streaming, and teaming waves of wonder and pleasure crashing over me in euphoric surges of glorious oblivion.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 28 August 2014 source ↗
Rufus Wainwright Singer, songwriter and composer
I would probably want to cook a decent turkey. Whether it was my mother or my sister, growing up in a matriarchal family in America, they always cooked the best turkeys and kinda ruled my life that way, so I would like one crack at it. I’d put a turkey in the oven, and that would give me a good five hours to do some other stuff.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 18 July 2011 source ↗

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