If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing?
Recorded Paul Smith said elsewhere, not written here
I enjoy writing songs at home, so I would like to record an album on my last day. It would probably be a fairly melancholy, stripped-down record with just me and my guitar.

Clash, Swan Song, 9 April 2014 source ↗

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Black Francis Singer, songwriter and guitarist; lead vocalist of Pixies
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.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 16 April 2010 source ↗
James Blunt Singer, songwriter and musician
I’m sure it’s a cliché but I’d like to see as many of my friends and family as possible in that day. So I’d have my family around, I’d have my friends around, just to clock in with them.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 1 May 2017 source ↗
Barbara Hulanicki Fashion designer; founder of Biba
I would need a terrible lot of cash because I’d have to go and give all the tramps that come off the beach and the homeless, leave lots of cash bundles because they sleep in the doorways, it’s terribly sad. Then I’ll rush home and tidy everything up and throw away all my old clothes and old shoes and take them down to the charity shop. It’s going to be very satisfying.
Recorded Clash, Last Day On Earth, 15 February 2013 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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