Everyone's last tune

Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N' Roses

"This one's mine. Always has been."

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin

Motion Picture Soundtrack

Radiohead

"I can't explain it. I just know it's the one."

In My Life

The Beatles

"It's the song that taught me grief and love are the same thing, really."

The Drugs Don't Work

The Verve

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

"This song sat with me through the darkest stretch of my life."

Respect

Aretha Franklin

Black

Pearl Jam

"It's my way of having the last word."

Such Great Heights

The Postal Service

"I want my people to dance. One last time."

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

"I want people to know I left on my own terms."

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie

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

Glycerine

Bush

"Because life is long and complicated and this song gets it."

Creep

Radiohead

Dancing in the Dark

Bruce Springsteen

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

Lua

Bright Eyes

"My grandmother's favourite. Hers and mine now."

Angels

Robbie Williams

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

"I want people to sit with this, even if it's uncomfortable."

Respect

Aretha Franklin