Everyone's last tune

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

"There's a reason this is still my favourite, after all this time."

My Way

Frank Sinatra

Yesterday

The Beatles

"I've never once skipped this song. Not once."

Here Comes the Sun

The Beatles

"It's the song I'd want stuck in everyone's head afterwards."

Stand by Me

Ben E. King

"It reminds me of dancing in the kitchen with people I love."

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

"I want whoever's there to know this was a deliberate choice, and it mattered."

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

"It's the song I sing in the car when no one's watching."

Good Vibrations

The Beach Boys

"It's joyful, and that's exactly the note I want to end on."

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

"It just feels right. That's all the reason I need."

What a Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong

In My Life

The Beatles

"It's the most honest thing I know how to share about how hard life can be."

What a Wonderful World

Louis Armstrong

"I want this playing so people know exactly who I was."

Stand by Me

Ben E. King

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

"It's the song I'd want carved into the memory of the day."

Good Vibrations

The Beach Boys

"It's the soundtrack to the people who raised me."

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

Good Vibrations

The Beach Boys

"It's the smell of my childhood home, somehow, in song form."

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

"It's melancholy, but it's mine, and I want it heard."

Respect

Aretha Franklin

Space Oddity

David Bowie

"This is the song that makes loss feel less like an ending."