Gavin Rossdale
British musician
Sid Vicious doing My Way.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 August 2017 source ↗
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I like to live in the moment.
Tchaikovsky's 1812, sung by Barry Manilow.
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Frank Sinatra singing My Way.
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As the father of Celtic’s all-time top goalscorer (that’s either of my kids).
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Finding cucumber in things is a continual disappointment.
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My mother. Any child of a single parent, if they are in a relationship when they become a parent, thinks, “How the hell did you do it alone?”
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