The question
What most recently moved you to tears?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.
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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 ↗
For a film called Eliza Graves. It hasn't been released yet, but then again they might have edited that weeping sequence out.
Often when overwhelmed by beauty.
This morning: I lost a couple of friends recently and it’s been tough.
I cry all the time. It’s embarrassing. I mostly cry when my children perform something at school. My wife regularly says, “Do you see any other fathers weeping?” But I can’t stop myself.
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.
Like nothing else, I guess.
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.
If my children could change their own nappies.
To the British public generally. They know why.
Courtney Pine, Engelbert Humperdinck, Marc Almond, Michael Ball, Sheryl Crow, Julie Andrews
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