Alison Steadman
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The Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana.
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The End by the Beatles.
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Shirley MacLaine
American actress and author
The Nutcracker Suite pas de deux.
Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
Gavin Rossdale
British musician
Sid Vicious doing My Way.
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Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
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