Everyone's last tune

Streets of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

"I'd rather be remembered through this than through a eulogy."

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

"It's the song I turn to when I need to feel less alone."

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

Glycerine

Bush

Tiny Dancer

Elton John

"It's just a banger."

The Night Will Always Win

Manchester Orchestra

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman

"My other half picked this for our first dance and got it exactly right."

Someone Like You

Adele

"This song has got me through more than I can say."

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

Fake Plastic Trees

Radiohead

Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N' Roses

Let Her Go

Passenger

"We had this played at our reception and everyone cried, in a good way."

Holocene

Bon Iver

Angels

Robbie Williams

One

U2

"It's the song that made me feel powerful when nothing else did."

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

Blackbird

The Beatles

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

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin

Respect

Aretha Franklin

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

"There's no version of my story that doesn't include this song."