The question
What most recently made you cry?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
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 ↗
Frequently, especially now with what’s happening in the Middle East.
Last week when I read a passage from the novel my wife is writing.
Watching the 2015 movie Aloha.
At John Fortune's funeral. They played Flanders and Swann's Slow Train ("We won't be meeting again") and my heart broke.
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.
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.
To the British public generally. They know why.
If my children could change their own nappies.
Michael Ball, Julie Andrews, Sheryl Crow, Engelbert Humperdinck, Marc Almond, Courtney Pine
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