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Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2017 source ↗
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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.
Sadie Frost
English actress, producer, film director and fashion designer
Come Together, by The Beatles.
Sofie Gråbøl
Danish actress
A song by Ellie Goulding – I am not telling you which one.
Sam Neill
New Zealand actor
I Will Remember You, by Sarah McLachlan. That’ll choke the bastards up if nothing else will.
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