What song would you like played at your funeral?

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Not Puppy Love.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

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Fatima Bhutto Pakistani writer
We don’t play songs at funerals where I’m from, but if they had to – Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 February 2021 source ↗
Kathleen Turner American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 May 2014 source ↗

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