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Tears Of Laughter by Cheese and Crackers. We wrote it for an episode of Inside No 9 and it ends “Laughter is my memory of you...”
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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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Jean Paul Gaultier
French fashion designer
David Bowie's Fashion.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
Sue Johnston
English actress
Do You Hear The People Sing? from Les Mis.
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What I am now, but with a better singing voice.
Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.
Collecting glasses in a Lancashire pub. Try to take a pint glass with a millimetre of foam still in it, and you get a lit cigarette on the back of your hand.
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