Billy Ocean
British singer
My song, Suddenly.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney.
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Denise Lewis
Heptathlete and broadcaster
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.
James Corden
English actor and comedian
Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp.
Julia Stiles
American actress
When The Saints Go Marching In, by a New Orleans second line band.
More from Robert Peston
View profile →As a dad who was OK.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
Being completely still.
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
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