Billy Ocean
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My song, Suddenly.
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One Nation Under a Groove, by Funkadelic.
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Madhur Jaffrey
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None: I do not want a funeral.
Ed O'Brien
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I sang in Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in a choir as a kid. The final movement, In Paradisum, is one of the most beautiful, seemingly simple pieces of music. So I’ll have that, please.
Rory Kinnear
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That will depend on when and how I die, but you couldn’t beat The Birdie Song to set the right tone.
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When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.
The 12 years I spent in receivership. That was me being a dick. I lost the court case when I wanted to sack my management and had to pay them £120,000. I said, “I am not paying you, because I should have won.”
In 1975, I watched the film Stardust, and Adam Faith said, “I supply the birds, the pills and the pot.” And I thought, “I want that.”
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