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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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Laura Mvula
English singer
To Be Young, Gifted And Black, by Nina Simone.
Sienna Miller
British actress
The Lady Is A Tramp, by Frank Sinatra.
Marc Quinn
British painter and sculptor
The Doobie Brothers – I Cheat The Hangman.
Nicola Walker
British actress
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
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To my dad for not making it back to Birmingham to see him while I was in London doing The Streets.
I cry all the time.
That I might have to do a normal job.
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