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Ed Harris
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Mr Tambourine Man.
Ethan Hawke
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Townes Van Zandt’s To Live Is To Fly.
Nicholas Parsons
English actor, straight man and presenter
My wife says the Minute Waltz.
Barbra Streisand’s Evergreen from A Star Is Born or You’ll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.
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