Meg Rosoff
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Reasons To Be Cheerful, by Ian Dury.
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Heartbeats, by Jose González.
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Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Shaun Ryder
English singer
One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
Griff Rhys Jones
British actor and comedian
No songs, please. Don’t make a fuss.
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