Everyone's last tune

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

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

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman

"I want this to be the quiet thank you I never got round to saying."

The Funeral

Band of Horses

"Because it's honest. No pretending. Just the truth."

Take On Me

a-ha

Dancing in the Dark

Bruce Springsteen

"I want people to leave smiling, not crying."

Stairway to Heaven

Led Zeppelin

Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley

"Honestly? It's just a banger."

Creep

Radiohead

Smells Like Teen Spirit

Nirvana

"I want people to know exactly who they were saying goodbye to."

Creep

Radiohead

Africa

Toto

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

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

"I want whoever's left to know I was at peace."

Respect

Aretha Franklin

Heroes

David Bowie

"I want people to know exactly who they were saying goodbye to."

Comfortably Numb

Pink Floyd

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

Dreams

Fleetwood Mac

Streets of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

"There's a sadness in this song that feels like comfort, somehow."

Creep

Radiohead

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

Space Oddity

David Bowie