It's my funeral and I'll sing if I want to!

A karaoke-loving landlord will get his final wish when songs he recorded are played at his funeral, the Derby Telegraph reports.

Brian Boyce, 64, who ran the Kensington Tavern in Derby, died on Friday from a terminal disease.

Last year he recorded his favourite karaoke songs, including a rendition of Frank Sinatra's My Way.

His daughter, Samantha, said knowing his CD was going to be played would have brought a smile to her father's face.

The 38-year-old said: "He really enjoyed being in the limelight and that's why he enjoyed his singing, especially when people would clap and cheer him on.

"Dad only discovered he could sing in the last few years of his life and he always regretted that – he thought it was too late.

"He always had a quirky sense of humour and that is probably where the idea to have his singing played at his funeral came from.

"Hearing his voice at the funeral will have us all in tears but that's the kind of dramatic ending he always said he wanted."