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Tom Ellis
Welsh actor
Another One Bites The Dust.
Gloria Gaynor
Singer
A song I wrote called I Want to See You. It’s about reunion – about seeing your loved ones again in heaven. That’s the message I’d want to leave behind.
Chris Froome
British cyclist
Scatterlings Of Africa, by Johnny Clegg.
Rick Astley
Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..
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