HW:Ian Rankin in today's Sunday Times

[Alan Taylor]

There was an article in the Ecosse section  of the Sunday Times which reads
...

"DIRGES TO DIE FOR
Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series, has been musing on his
funeral - hardly surprising when your daily grind is penning novels about
Burke, Hare and corpses in Edinburgh Vennels.
He's been deciding on the music he'll play.  Before his ashes are scattered
on Arthur's Seat, Rankin wants the service at Cluny Church in Morningside to
begin with Silver Machine by Hawkwind, because "everybody I know hates
Hawkwind".  Then there'll be Death is Not the End by Bob Dylan ("When the
cities are on fire with the burning flesh of men/just remember that death is
not the end").  Third is You Can't Always Get What You Want by the Rolling
Stones.
These are very much the choices of the middle-aged rock bore: Hawkwind to
demonstrate that the departed never lost their crazy, outlaw side; Dylan to
show that despite never losing their outlaw side, the departed was capable
of deep reflection; the Stones to make a wry comment on the transcience of
things.
All of which got me musing on my own soundtrack.  I'm having the David
Bowie's The Laughing Gnome, the third movement of the Eroica symphony - and
the bleak music of inconsolable grief."