If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Black Francis said elsewhere, not written here
Primping mostly. It’s Sophia Loren! So I would clean up a bit and the first thing I would check are my toenails. I would have a full shave and make sure I had moisturised everywhere. Of course I’d make sure I smell nice too, but not overly perfumed. I think after cleaning and steaming and bathing and primping, I would like to do a bit of exercise – or maybe the steam bath would be enough – to bring out my natural body odour, that fresh, manly scent.

Clash, Last Day On Earth, 16 April 2010 source ↗

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Jake Shears Singer and songwriter; co-lead vocalist of Scissor Sisters
It would definitely involve lots of sex. I would spend the afternoon having some crazy passionate declarative sex with my husband.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 29 June 2012 source ↗
Ray Davies Musician; lead vocalist and songwriter of the Kinks
I’ll have to write the greatest song I’ve ever written. You know, every day I get up, I live most days like they’re my last. I wake up with a kind of fear in my belly, with a feeling like, ‘This is it – go for it.’ So in many respects, it won’t be that much different from any other day. Knowing my luck, if I knew it was going to be my last day I’d make an elaborate arrangement. But something always goes wrong – like the gas boiler would explode. I’m not very good at making plans, so I live every day as if it’s my last. But I’d have to write a great song.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 28 May 2009 source ↗
Rufus Wainwright Singer, songwriter and composer
I would probably want to cook a decent turkey. Whether it was my mother or my sister, growing up in a matriarchal family in America, they always cooked the best turkeys and kinda ruled my life that way, so I would like one crack at it. I’d put a turkey in the oven, and that would give me a good five hours to do some other stuff.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 18 July 2011 source ↗
Tricky Musician, record producer and rapper
There’s a few enemies I’d like to take with me. I think mostly telling my family how much I love them, stuff you don’t do. We’ve all lost people and you think, ‘well, I wish I would have said that to them’, or, ‘I wish I would have told them this’. So there would be a lot of that, telling people I love them and what they mean to me and stuff.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 29 September 2010 source ↗

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