The question
What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 October 2012 source ↗
I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.
I sang in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a choir as a kid. The final movement, In Paradisum, is one of the most beautiful, seemingly simple pieces of music. So I’ll have that, please.
Any song by Donny Hathaway.
Smile by Nat King Cole.
Self-criticism.
Michael Frayn – such modesty, talent, kindness and bottomless curiosity.
The demise of the London Daily Mail.
Lack of self-criticism.
There are different kinds of happiness, but the simplest was when I was 13 because what one had to do was so obvious.
Gemma Whelan, John Waters, Jo Brand, Jerry Hall, Terence Conran, Alan Titchmarsh
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