Laura Mvula
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To Be Young, Gifted And Black, by Nina Simone.
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The Doobie Brothers – I Cheat The Hangman.
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Jeremy Deller
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Highwayman by the Highwaymen.
Rhys Ifans
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The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
Rory Kinnear
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That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
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More money. Sounds terrible, but money is the energy of change.
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