In ‘Private Lives’ in 1930 Noel Coward wrote ‘it’s extraordinary how potent cheap music is’.
It seems that in 2021, all these years later, it’s extraordinary just how right he was, and still is.
Popular music and songs form a soundtrack for most people’s life. Here, people share the story of how one particular piece of music reminds them of a significant time or moment in their life.
For example, everyone will have an earliest memory of a piece of music or it could be something that means a lot to them personally . . school, holidays, meeting their partner, births, engagement, weddings, gap year, graduation, first job, a sporting event, the best concert, their father’s favourite piece, significant moments in their life . . . a happy time, a sad time . . literally anything.
This series is people thinking out loud, reminiscing and showing just how wide a variety of music inspires such powerful memories. The series has great music. It ranges from King’s College to Elvis, traditional Irish music to rock or opera, jazz, pop, classical . . the list is endless.

Each piece has a different mood and and an individual story. The listener will share how they feel now and how they felt then when they first heard the piece. For some people it will be a happy or humorous memory, for others it could be very sad since it emphasises the passing of time or a traumatic event. It could be first love, going to school, social life as a teenager, singing rugby songs on the bus, going to church . . again, the list is endless.
It might be a dance hit where they first met their partner or a song in French from that summer on an exchange trip - unashamed nostalgia.
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