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Highway To Hell.
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Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
John Waters
American filmmaker
Don't Play Me Cheap, sung by Tina Turner when she was still with Ike.
Gary Numan
British musician
Not one of mine.
Tom Kerridge
Chef and restaurateur
Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. I’m a big sports fan and Italia 90 was such a massive part of my life when I’d just turned 17. That tune just builds and builds. I can imagine a massive coffin disappearing down while he’s singing. What better way to go?
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This year? Losing to François Englert and Pete Higgs. I truly thought I had that in the bag.
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