Cybill Shepherd
American actress and former model
Glenn Miller's A String Of Pearls.
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Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.
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Tom Ellis
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Another One Bites The Dust.
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Bob Marley's Ride Natty Ride.
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I don’t have a favourite song, but I will definitely give it some thought, so no one’s arguing about it when I die.
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An astronaut, a writer, a dancer.
Hormones – other than that, I sleep like a rock.
I would have tried to meet Lou Reed backstage. I went to see him for years, and never tried to meet him. Eventually we met at award shows and did become friends.
A death threat at Glastonbury festival in 1989. The police told me not to go on, but I said I had to because I was headlining. So I wore a bullet-proof vest. It seemed unlikely that I would be assassinated, but it was shocking and very stressful.
The most extravagant thing was a bottle of 1904 armagnac for $1,000. I spent $10,000 on a Martin guitar in the 90s. I also spent $100,000 on a Fairlight keyboard and I ended up giving it away. Oh well.
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