Nicholas Parsons
English actor, straight man and presenter
My wife says the Minute Waltz.
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Sid Vicious doing My Way.
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Chris O'Dowd
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Monster Mash, by Bobby Pickett.
The Bare Necessities.
Bobby Gillespie
Singer and songwriter
Feel Like Going Home by Charlie Rich.
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Last year, when I had all four kids – Daisy, Kingston, Zuma and Apollo – staying with me on my birthday. It was magical.
Sometimes it was disappointing not to have the fan base at home in the UK that we had elsewhere.
The fact that I am still making music.
If I am still in the argument I’ve had in the day.
Painting 11 identical dentists’ offices magnolia. It was Kafkaesque. By the time you are in office four, you are losing your mind.
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