Jean Paul Gaultier
French fashion designer
David Bowie's Fashion.
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Monster Mash, by Bobby Pickett.
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Ronnie Wood
English rock musician
The Resurrection Shuffle.
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Peter Capaldi
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Johnny Cash’s version of Danny Boy.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 August 2018 source ↗
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At college: missing lectures to rehearse plays and go daytime drinking. Oh, and the baby’s birth.
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The baby monitor. Followed by my own fake snores.
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