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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, by Roberta Flack.
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Chris O'Dowd
Irish actor and comedian
Monster Mash, by Bobby Pickett.
Rick Astley
Singer, songwriter and radio presenter
I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..
Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
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