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That’s All by Mel Tormé.
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Sam Neill
New Zealand actor
I Will Remember You, by Sarah McLachlan. That’ll choke the bastards up if nothing else will.
Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Something by Nick Drake.
Stephen Dillane
British actor
I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.
Bella Freud
British fashion designer
Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley.
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I only ever wanted to be Barbra Streisand. I probably still do.
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