What music do you want playing at your funeral?

[redwine]

My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

There is something in choosing an upbeat happy tune like bring me sunshine, it's in the same tradition of playing trad jazz down in the Deep South of the USA. Always look on the bright side of life? Maybe.

Precisely, that's why we played it at my dad's funeral to walk out to.

[River Don]

My life - The Beatles

Bring me sunshine -morecambe and wise

Not decided on a third yet

There is something in choosing an upbeat happy tune like bring me sunshine, it's in the same tradition of playing trad jazz down in the Deep South of the USA. Always look on the bright side of life? Maybe.

Precisely, that's why we played it at my dad's funeral to walk out to.

How about the Benny Hill theme tune?

No. Too much.

I'll always remember Rovers away to Boston, during the minutes silence the fella behind me, his phone started ringing. The Benny Hill theme. Derrr dur dur d d d d dur dur d... He couldn't turn it off. Dur d dur d dur d... It was loud, and he's going Shit! Shit! ... We couldn't laugh but it was smirks all round.

[redwine]

That's funny but I see a funeral as a celebration of a life. Why not laugh as well as be sad.

[jucyberry]

In that case, Wish me luck by Gracie Fields. Can't get much more chipper than that.

[ravenrover]

MIne have been chosen for years and my Undertaker knows them
In - Every Grain of Sand - Bob Dylan
Out - I Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody - Bob Dylan

My only stipulation is that whoever is there has to stay in and listen to both songs all the way through

[LincsRover]

If it were up to me I'd have 'in dreams' by Roy Orbison but since I'll be dead (I hope - BST) whatever gives my loved ones some comfort and happy memories will do for me.

[Sandy Lane]

I went to the wake of the crotchety grandfather of a colleague, and he wanted Frank Sinatra's My Way to be played, and sure enough it was blaring out of the funeral home's doors!  It was perfect.  Happy and sad (and true).

[mrfrostsdad]

Forever Young. Bob Dylan.
The irony!!

[Crowle Rover]

If I'm buried Going Underground by The Jam

If I'm cremated Burn by Deep Purple

[GazLaz]

Only the good die young by Billy Joel, when I die when I'm 90.

[coventryrover]

Burn baby burn by Ash

[Draytonian III]

Don't you forget about me - Simple Minds

[BillyStubbsTears]

If it's going to be Simple Minds, it'd better be Somebody Up There Likes You.

[Mr1Croft]

Dropkick Murphys - Going out in Style

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