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Another One Bites The Dust.
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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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Suggs
Singer
Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee. I find it uplifting, because we all suffer these things in life. Will my funeral be happy or sad? Depends who you’re talking to. Some people will be happy. A couple will be sad. But I’d like a jolly affair.
Kelsey Grammer
American actor
I would borrow from Peter Sellers: Glenn Miller’s In The Mood.
Joseph Fiennes
English actor
Jeff Buckley's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Actor and writer
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
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On a caravan site on a farm in the Brecon Beacons when I was a kid. I have three sisters and every year we met family friends with kids the same age. We would go to the river and make rope swings and build dens. It was very Enid Blyton.
When I was 17, I worked in a warehouse in Rotherham doing an audit of truck parts. I counted nuts and bolts all day long.
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