Louis Walsh
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Crazy by Patsy Cline.
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Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
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Eddie Marsan
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George Harrison's My Sweet Lord.
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Glenn Miller's A String Of Pearls.
Emilia Fox
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I would like the poem Cherish by Raymond Carver. It was read by my dad at my wedding, and is my absolute favourite.
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My teenage years in the Runaways: I was still naive enough to think good things about the world and life and people, and I was having fun playing rock’n’roll around the world, living the dream.
An astronaut, an archaeologist, an actor, and a musician.
I had a cafeteria job, serving food, and some people were really nasty. There was a stack of nice, cool plates, and a stack of hotter plates that had just come out of the kitchen. So, if a person was an arsehole, I’d hand them a hot plate with a smile and watch them deal with it.
I don’t think I’d change anything: the bad forms you more than the good.
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
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