Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
Disappear by Beyoncé.
What song would you like played at your funeral?
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I’m living for ever, so I won’t be having one. But just in case, I can imagine My Way by Frank Sinatra belting out as I’m cremated or put in the ground.
The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 18 January 2026 source ↗
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Stephen Dillane
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I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.
Nile Rodgers
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We Are Family, by Sister Sledge.
Beverley Knight
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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.
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