What song would you like played at your funeral?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Cerys Matthews said elsewhere, not written here
Dylan’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 178 →
Tom Kerridge Chef and restaurateur
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?

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

Louis Theroux British and American journalist and author
The Weird Weekends theme music: Mini Skirt by Esquivel.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 November 2018 source ↗

More from Cerys Matthews

View profile →

More on death & what remains

Also answered this · A–Z

Adrian Edmondson, Adwoa Aboah, Aidan Gillen, Alan Titchmarsh, Alison Steadman, Anna Friel

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer