Bobby Gillespie
Singer and songwriter
Feel Like Going Home by Charlie Rich.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 June 2018 source ↗
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Shirley MacLaine
American actress and author
The Nutcracker Suite pas de deux.
Sandi Toksvig
Danish and British broadcaster, comedian and writer
How about The Hokey Cokey? That’s always fun, especially if they’re carrying the coffin.
Kevin Pietersen
English cricketer
We Weren’t Born To Follow by Bon Jovi.
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Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
As a dad who was OK.
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
I am rarely disappointed. I try to make the best of things.
Prime minister and brain surgeon.
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