Beatle Memories

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1053480/Beatles-hits-reveal-music-helps-recall-vivid-memories.html

[mervap]

Very cool....there was a bit on public radio's "The Infinite Mind"...it was about the sense of hearing having the most vivid imagination, how songs don't just remind us of the things we associate with them, but can trigger other senses as well. On "Run, Devil, Run", Paul mentions that one of the tunes (I forget which) reminds him of a carnival he went to as a youngster and how the song brings back sights AND smells of that place. How many of us have a story such as that? I'll bet each of us has at least one....here's mine: Every time I hear Three Dog Night's "Joy To the World", I am taken back to a home I lived in as a young kid...maybe 4 or 5 yrs old. We would have some neighbours over and we kids would be running around the yard playing Tag or something....The weather was warm and my Dad would be talking to the other dads and the smell of cut grass, beer and ciggies was wafting everywhere. Even then, I hoped those nights would never end, but of course they did....but when I hear, "Jeremiah was a bullfrog.....", I can be right there getting skeeter bites and having fun.

Hey, this was supposed to be Beatle memories!

[Paperback Writer]

Great topic!

A few years ago there was a study with the same conclusion -  that time -  it was what sports teams and heroes teens had -  perpetuated into adulthood.

There is a lot of science behind this, some of which is just in last week's Newsweek.

Google: Newsweek, Sing Brain, Sing -  and you can read it.  The scientist in it, has written two books on it and has produced Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder records.  Very weird, since I saw both this summer, after waiting 40 years for both.

McCartney's concerts really flood the ole' DNA and makes me feel like I dropped acid.