Much has been written about the science of music and memory: why and how songs, often from our distant past, trigger emotions.  The Guardian has just published an extract from The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers.

Pour yourself a cuppa and settle into this long article, which starts like a very fine Stereo Story (about  a version of  the song Only You) and then moves into the science side of things.

Thanks to Luke Davies for bringing it to our attention.

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