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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 October 2020 source ↗
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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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View all 178 →Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
Julia Stiles
American actress
When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Irish actor
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
Paul Giamatti
American actor
Highway To Hell.
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All the things that seem very unimportant and manageable the next morning.
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My children’s education.
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