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I am going straight to cremation like David Bowie, so there would be no funeral.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗
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Rhys Ifans
Welsh actor and musician
The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Actor and writer
Our family song – Three Is A Magic Number, which my husband played me on the way back from the maternity hospital.
Tracey Ullman
British and American actress
The End by the Beatles.
David Hare
Playwright and screenwriter
This week it’s I Fall In Love Too Easily by Chet Baker.
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