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If you had only one day left, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid?
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Black Francis

Singer, songwriter and guitarist; lead vocalist of Pixies

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Primping mostly. It’s Sophia Loren! So I would clean up a bit and the first thing I would check are my toenails. I would have a full shave and make sure I had moisturised everywhere. Of course I’d make sure I smell nice too, but not overly perfumed. I think after cleaning and steaming and bathing and primping, I would like to do a bit of exercise – or maybe the steam bath would be enough – to bring out my natural body odour, that fresh, manly scent.

Clash, Last Day On Earth, 16 April 2010 source ↗

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Cate Blanchett Actor and producer
I guess dancing up a storm in the living room with my husband and children, and the farmer from across the way. Man, that farmer can dance.
Recorded Catherine Shoard, Don't Look Up press questionnaire, The Guardian, 9 December 2021 source ↗
Luke Pritchard Singer and guitarist of The Kooks
My last afternoon would be spent with my friends. Nothing spectacular, just good times. We’d maybe walk through Soho in London getting a little loaded and making it up as we go along. Some good rum and that’s all.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 15 December 2011 source ↗
Jax Jones DJ and record producer
I’d run it like every day: have something good to eat, make sure my body’s feeling good, and then when it’s time to go I’d head to the spa and just be massaged into death.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 19 November 2019 source ↗
Guy Garvey Singer, songwriter and radio presenter; lead singer of Elbow
Let’s pretend I’ve been training for my pilot’s licence. I’d like to take off in a two-seater sea plane from the loch in Mull and land it expertly in the little boating lake at Heaton Park. Which interestingly has a pair of my spectacles at the bottom of it from my last day at school in 1990.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 19 October 2012 source ↗

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