Bobby Gillespie
Singer and songwriter
Feel Like Going Home by Charlie Rich.
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The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
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Tony Ross
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On The Good Ship Lollipop, by Shirley Temple.
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Definitely a Carpenters track.
Clara Amfo
Broadcaster
Run to the Sun by NERD. I’ve always loved that song. People always think that Pharrell [Williams] wrote it about a lover but it was about his grandmother, who passed away. My brother was a massive NERD fan – he got me into them and there’s something so pure and loving about that song. I want my funeral to be a joyous occasion, I want people to rave and to wear bright colours. But for the moment of reflection, I want that song.
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I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
For persevering, and being a good role model.
On a walking safari in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I had no phone, no mirror, nothing, and I was really happy because I had no distractions.
Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
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