The question
What most recently moved you to tears?Originally asked
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I put out a song called Monsters on my last album, about my father’s illness – he had stage four chronic kidney disease – and a handful of people offered him a new kidney. People’s kindness really touched me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 November 2021 source ↗
At the end of Professor Marston & The Wonder Women.
At my friend Billy’s funeral last month. He died suddenly in his sleep and was only 61.
When I was recording a track called May, about my mum.
Watching dying babies on TV.
To the British public generally. They know why.
I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
Like nothing else, I guess.
A lawyer. I did work experience and was sent to the public gallery at the high court. The man in the dock was a 50-year-old accused of buggering a cat on the Metropolitan line. I decided to become a musician instead.
If my children could change their own nappies.
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