Sara Cox: What song would you like played at your funeral?

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 Sara Cox said elsewhere, not written here

The Hovis ad music.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2019 source ↗

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Beverley Knight Singer and stage actor

It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.

Recorded The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 21 December 2025 source ↗

Mike Skinner English rapper

I'd like to write my funeral song.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗

Ivan Lendl Czech and American tennis player

I am not thinking about dying yet.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2017 source ↗

Timmy Mallett Broadcaster and painter

At my late brother Martin’s funeral we played He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother by the Hollies. Martin lived a life that inspired me with the way he approached his learning difficulties and the love he showed us all with his Down’s syndrome. I often think that extra chromosome of Down’s syndrome is a chromosome of love, and you can’t have too much love in the world, can you?

Recorded The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 1 January 2024 source ↗