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I'd like to write my funeral song.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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Ed Harris
American actor and director
Mr Tambourine Man.
Richard Osman
English TV presenter and writer
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash, or the theme tune to Pointless.
Terence Conran
British restaurateur and designer
I have asked a fireworks company to put my ashes in a collection of rockets, so I think the right tune is Handel’s firework music.
Bernadine Evaristo
English author and academic
Disappear by Beyoncé.
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