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At a fashion show after-party in New York in 2004, my friend dared me to push her into the pool. I did, and you’ve never heard laughter die so quickly.
One horrible afternoon in Chicago when I forgot my words in The Marriage of Figaro, in a role I’d sung hundreds of times.
Being torn to shreds by a very elderly woman for driving badly on the Isle of Man, maybe 15 years ago. She stopped in the middle of the road and really let me have it.
Passing wind on camera. I was doing a rather large movie and it was a closeup.
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
My microphone cost me six grand.
That I might have to do a normal job.
Bill Drummond, Thomas Bangalter and Jay-Z.
Chris McCausland, Mark Radcliffe, Esther Freud, Lemn Sissay, Shobna Gulati, Daryl McCormack
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