Stephen Dillane: What song would you like played at your funeral?

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Recorded Stephen Dillane said elsewhere, not written here

I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

Others on this question

Eddie Izzard British comedian and actress

Mozart’s clarinet concerto from the Out Of Africa soundtrack.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2016 source ↗

Terence Conran British restaurateur and designer

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2016 source ↗

Marc Quinn British painter and sculptor

The Doobie Brothers – I Cheat The Hangman.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 May 2014 source ↗

David Gandy British model

She’s Gone by Hall and Oates, but with the words changed to He’s Gone.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 April 2020 source ↗

Russell Brand, for being his own man.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

A sense of purpose.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

In the first room of the Australian art exhibition at the RA. Don't know why. Loved it.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

Playing football in the school playground at lunchtime.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 January 2014 source ↗

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