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The End by the Beatles.
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A song by Ellie Goulding – I am not telling you which one.
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Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee.
Rickie Lee Jones
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That’s always changing, depending on how I think I’m going to die. At the moment, I’d like my own song Away from the Sky at my funeral.
Julie Andrews
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Something triumphant, I couldn’t tell you what but something vibrant and joyous.
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When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
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