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Adagio from Concerto No 3 in D Minor BWV 974, played by James Rhodes.
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David Bowie’s Life On Mars.
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Rufus Wainwright’s Get Happy.
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A song I wrote years ago called Remember Me With Love.
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One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
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