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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.
We’ve Only Just Begun by The Carpenters.
At my late brother Martin’s funeral we played He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother by the Hollies. Martin lived a life that inspired me with the way he approached his learning difficulties and the love he showed us all with his Down’s syndrome. I often think that extra chromosome of Down’s syndrome is a chromosome of love, and you can’t have too much love in the world, can you?
Sid Vicious doing My Way.
I did a crap impersonation of JK Rowling a few years ago. Sorry, JK. Can this apology put me on a casting list for your next mega-franchise?
Realising as I grew up that people don’t really know what they’re doing.
On a plane with Meryl Streep in 1984: the engines blew and we had to make an emergency landing.
When I met my husband and had babies. They have made me happy ever since.
I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
James Corden, Eve Myles, Christopher Eccleston, Ruth Jones, Sue Johnston, Lesley Sharp
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