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Dylan’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.
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Eric Idle’s Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. That’s me, really.
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Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).
Sadie Frost
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Come Together, by The Beatles.
Sofie Gråbøl
Danish actress
A song by Ellie Goulding – I am not telling you which one.
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I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
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