Mark Gatiss
British actor and writer
A Day In The Life by the Beatles.
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One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
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Nicola Walker
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Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
Shirley Ballas
English ballroom dancer
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
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View profile →I had a gun shoved in my eyeball in New York by a crack dealer in the 1980s. I have also watched somebody next to me get shot in the head in a gun battle – that was in Jamaica in the early 1990s.
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
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