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Funeral Music

Stephen Dalton, The Times, April 2009

CHOOSING THE soundtrack for your own funeral is every modern music fan's dilemma. How much simpler things used to be when religious and classical pieces defined the standard playlist. Tradition ruled. Black was always the new black.

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