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.
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Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp.
Summer Breeze, by the Isley Brothers.
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View profile →Last Monday was a really emotional day for me: my last son graduated from high school and he’s going on a mission for the Mormon Church soon. I’ve already experienced it four times with my other sons: my oldest went to London, my second son to Italy, my third to Scotland and my fourth the Netherlands. They come back, but the little boy stays out there. He never comes back.
A bad performance.
In 1971, I was sitting in a hotel room in London and there was a television chat show going on, debating whether Donny Osmond should be deported because of the chaos he was wreaking. And while I was watching this, there were fans on the street below, chanting my name. I was 13 and thought, “Does it get any better than this?”
Eight grandchildren, five sons and my one wife.
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