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‘We tried to get Mariah Carey … and found out she costs $1m’: the songs musicians chose for their first dance


Does Charlie Simpson regret choosing Sigur Rós? Did Chesney Hawkes play ‘that’ song? And who picked an eight-minute jam by LCD Soundsystem? Musicians on the songs they chose for their wedding dance, for better or for worse

Photograph: Courtesy of Kate Pierson Crush Me With Your Love by Sia My wife and I have been together for almost 20 years, but we got married in 2015 after it became legal in the United States, and it was really beautiful. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. There’s a line that says “we look for love, no time for tears / Wasted water’s all that is, it and it don’t make no flowers grow”, and that beautiful metaphor and language really spoke to us.

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