However be aware that the Church has to be licensed to play music and there are copyright considerations. We paid dearly for my Mum's funeral at St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea, Shoreham-by-Sea. She had a cassette of Sarah Brightman singing "Time To Say Goodbye" that she'd played incessantly whilst ill in the months before. And she wanted that played at her funeral. The words were printed out in the 'order of service.' Unfortunaly my brother had left the cassette in London, and so the night before he had to drive up and back to collect it. When the time came for the song there was an expectant and emotional hush, the silence was fully 5 minutes or more long with emabarrassed looks from all especially the vicar. No-one moved, no-one even coughed. Eventually the vicar simply read out the words. Afterwards we were told that the person operating the cassette player did not know how to press the 'play' button. But we suspect that it was because the Church didn't want to break copyright, or wasn't licensed for playing music. And we still got charged for the full service - very expensive event a funeral. At the crematorium the organist did at least attempt to play the tune - but it wan't the same.
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