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Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd – the greatest guitar solo ever.
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Nile Rodgers
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We Are Family, by Sister Sledge.
Steve Pemberton
British actor and comedian
Tears Of Laughter by Cheese and Crackers. We wrote it for an episode of Inside No 9 and it ends “Laughter is my memory of you...”
Fatima Bhutto
Pakistani writer
We don’t play songs at funerals where I’m from, but if they had to – Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
Rory Kinnear
English actor
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
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When I started getting to grips with playing the guitar, aged 11.
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My dad, for providing for the family for 20 years – he was a wine merchant and recently retired.
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