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Highway To Hell.
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Joan Jett
American singer, songwriter and guitarist
Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
Viv Albertine
Australian-born British musician and writer
I am going straight to cremation like David Bowie, so there would be no funeral.
Sam Neill
New Zealand actor
I Will Remember You, by Sarah McLachlan. That’ll choke the bastards up if nothing else will.
Sofie Gråbøl
Danish actress
A song by Ellie Goulding – I am not telling you which one.
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