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I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗
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Beverley Knight
Singer and stage actor
It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.
Emily Mortimer
British actress
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
Kelsey Grammer
American actor
I would borrow from Peter Sellers: Glenn Miller’s In The Mood.
Viv Albertine
Australian-born British musician and writer
I am going straight to cremation like David Bowie, so there would be no funeral.
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