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One Last Song
Conversations on Life, Death, and Music
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An ironically upbeat book thatasks some of today's most inimitablemusicians which song they would want to be the last onethey ever hear
If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It’s a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years.
In Last Songs on Earth, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearlywhite gates. Weaving together their explanations with fun illustrations and poignant interludes—what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, etc.—he explores every aspect of deathbed songs. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.
In Last Songs on Earth, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearlywhite gates. Weaving together their explanations with fun illustrations and poignant interludes—what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, etc.—he explores every aspect of deathbed songs. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.
Praise for One Last Song
An intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals
Rolling Stone
Endlessly entertaining
Time Magazine
Sometimes the most morbid of questions lead to the most fascinating answers
Esquire
“oddly entertaining…full of surprises”
Kirkus
About the Author
Mike Ayers is an award-winning journalist, editor, and author whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Esquire, GQ, Billboard, and numerous other publications. A longtime chronicler of music and popular culture, Ayers has interviewed hundreds of artists across genres, bringing a thoughtful and deeply human perspective to conversations about creativity, identity, and life's defining moments. In One Last Song, he combines his passion for music journalism with a universal question about the soundtrack that shapes our lives.
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