If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Damon Gough said elsewhere, not written here
I’d make the best double album ever. People hate double albums and always say, ‘this should have just been one’, like ‘Sandinista!’ by The Clash. I’d like to try and achieve a double album that everyone says, ‘actually, I could do with it being three’. I’d have to get up early.

Clash, Swan Song, 22 October 2010 source ↗

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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 ↗
Guy Garvey Singer, songwriter and radio presenter; lead singer of Elbow
Let’s pretend I’ve been training for my pilot’s licence. I’d like to take off in a two-seater sea plane from the loch in Mull and land it expertly in the little boating lake at Heaton Park. Which interestingly has a pair of my spectacles at the bottom of it from my last day at school in 1990.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 19 October 2012 source ↗
Mike Skinner English rapper
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 23 November 2012 source ↗
Rob da Bank DJ; co-founder of Bestival
Book all the headliners that I’ve never managed to book for Bestival, for future Bestivals that my children will run after I die. Kate Bush, Prince, Dolly Parton, David Bowie – maybe throw Iron Maiden in there for a bit of a laugh. I’d get on the mobile and stroll around outside and do some deals. Maybe get some of these hard-arse agents to give me a bit of a discount as I’m dying.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 18 January 2013 source ↗

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