Laura Mvula: What song would you like played at your funeral?

What song would you like played at your funeral?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Laura Mvula said elsewhere, not written here

To Be Young, Gifted And Black, by Nina Simone.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 August 2014 source ↗

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Ruth Jones Welsh actress, producer, and writer

Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West).

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 November 2018 source ↗

Beverley Knight Singer and stage actor

It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.

Recorded The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 21 December 2025 source ↗

David Arquette American actor, producer, & former professional wrestler