Tom Kerridge: What song would you want played at your funeral? — FLAPSS

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What song would you want played at your funeral?

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Tom Kerridge

Chef and restaurateur

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Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. I’m a big sports fan and Italia 90 was such a massive part of my life when I’d just turned 17. That tune just builds and builds. I can imagine a massive coffin disappearing down while he’s singing. What better way to go?

The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 25 March 2024 source ↗

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Malcolm Gladwell Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers

Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 April 2021 source ↗

Viv Albertine Australian-born British musician and writer

I am going straight to cremation like David Bowie, so there would be no funeral.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2020 source ↗

Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model

Glenn Miller's A String Of Pearls.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗

Zoe Ball British TV and radio personality

That’s All by Mel Tormé.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 December 2020 source ↗

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