If you have any problems, please let us know. But when Marvin starts to wail “Save the babies!”, walls – and tears – come tumbling down. It took Frank Sinatra recording it for his album September of My Years to make it a standard. Featuring Paul Buchanan’s wearily ecstatic voice, the gentle tug of an acoustic guitar riff and an atmospheric swirl, it’s so slow, sure and steady that the interjection of the gospel choir at the end is truly explosive. It’s more detailed than the minimal original, building on Collins’s chorus a narrative of a fatally wounded gangster getting ready to meet his maker. Britpop’s favourite sons strike a contemplative tenor, conjuring the atmosphere of a gloomy English day, when the cold, dismal weather presses in on you but somehow its familiarity is oddly reassuring. Only for fun, here are some songs about life and death. Helps to have a Memphis backing and a brilliant voice, mind. An angsty song that compares heartbreak to death. These tunes remind us that it's okay to add lightness and humor to the topic of death. More exciting – and why it remains a stage favourite – is that it’s a clever little song, Clive Burr’s stuttering drums in the verses lending it an air of menace and tension resolved by the descending, fist-pumping chorus. This song reminds us that a bond of love is never lost, even after death. Though there’s scant evidence supporting the legend that the song inspired dozens of real-life suicides, Seress finally followed through on the threat implied in the song: he jumped from his Budapest apartment window in 1968. Organize a virtual event with help from our friends at GatheringUs.