Louis Walsh
Irish music manager and television personality
I’d like people to say, “Well, he was a bit odd, he was a bit funny.”
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A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As a dad who was OK.
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Sonny Rollins
Jazz tenor saxophonist and composer
I hope so, yes! The thing is that my spiritual leanings don’t accept what we would call life and death… We don’t believe in that. There is no end! There is no dying. We’re here forever! Even though your body turns to dust like everything else in this world, your soul is going to continue on. Even though I’m not able to perform music anymore, I’m still here as a human being, my soul will still be here when I’m gone — so every day I’m trying to be a good human being. And I guess whatever I accomplish in that sense will turn into the legacy of Sonny Rollins.
Roger Allam
English actor
Just remembered, really.
Zoe Ball
British TV and radio personality
As Naughty Grandma – you know, the one who is always causing mischief at Christmas.
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Prime minister and brain surgeon.
I am rarely disappointed. I try to make the best of things.
Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
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