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.
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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.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2016 source ↗
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Cerys Matthews
Welsh singer-songwriter
Dylan’s I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.
Louis Smith
English artistic gymnast
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, by Roberta Flack.
Stephen Dillane
British actor
I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.
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