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If you had only one day left, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid?
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Ray Davies

Musician; lead vocalist and songwriter of the Kinks

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here
I’ll have to write the greatest song I’ve ever written. You know, every day I get up, I live most days like they’re my last. I wake up with a kind of fear in my belly, with a feeling like, ‘This is it – go for it.’ So in many respects, it won’t be that much different from any other day. Knowing my luck, if I knew it was going to be my last day I’d make an elaborate arrangement. But something always goes wrong – like the gas boiler would explode. I’m not very good at making plans, so I live every day as if it’s my last. But I’d have to write a great song.

Clash, Swan Song, 28 May 2009 source ↗

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Gary Kemp Songwriter, musician and actor; guitarist of Spandau Ballet
There’s always a lyric to finish. They hang around, and I think it would be awful to go without tidying those up.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 28 January 2011 source ↗
James Lavelle Electronic musician, record label owner and curator
I’d like to be dancing the night away, making love and listening to music. All done with the most amazing bag of weed you can possibly imagine so my last joint is perfect.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 13 May 2010 source ↗
James Yorkston Folk musician, singer-songwriter and author
If the rain held off, I’d walk down to Lough Ine, stopping at the shrine to say a few words to Herself and rile a few fairies. I’d take a sloop out, do a few perimeters and have a chat with Labhrai Loinsigh. I’d maybe walk up furry mountain and take in the view.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 29 January 2009 source ↗
Rick Astley Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 21 December 2016 source ↗

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