Angus Deayton: How would you want people to remember you?

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How would you want people to remember you?

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Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions

A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Angus Deayton

English actor, comedian, presenter and writer

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

With the correct pronunciation of my name.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2016 source ↗

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Shakin' Stevens Welsh rock and roll singer and songwriter

It would be nice just to be remembered.

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Sonya Yoncheva Opera singer

Oh, yes, absolutely. I have two children, and often I think about them and how when I’m gone, they will be here listening to an old CD of mine, thinking, “At least I can I can hear her voice.” I think this is very charming. It’s very nice. And then, of course, I also think about the other generations of opera singers coming behind me… It’s so important that they can have a real testimony of how it was in our ears. I think that what stands the test of time is really the memory of people hearing us singing somewhere.

Recorded The Talks, 27 July 2022 source ↗

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