One Last Song

If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be? Your favourite 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 One Last Song, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with fun illustrations and poignant interludes—such as what your song to die to says about you, and what songs famous people have died to—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.