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Amazing Grace, on bagpipes.
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Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Irish actor
An incredibly long one – maybe the entire St Matthew Passion – just so everybody would have to sit in the church for hours.
Anna Friel
English actress
Weird Fishes by Radiohead.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
Mr Tambourine Man.
Suzanne Vega
American singer-songwriter
Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.
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