This is what my dad told me when I was a teenager. He was frustated at my complete immersion in music and felt that I should be educating myself more through art and literature. He was wrong. I'm pretty sure we've all learnt a LOT by listening to music. From the remarkable to the trivial, here's some of the things that music taught me.
As a nine year old in 1980, it was just a song. Maybe the name of a woman, but nothing more. But then I dug a bit deeper and so learnt about the plane, a B-29 Fortress Bomber, that dropped the first atomic bomb during world war 2. Named after the pilot’s mother, Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb (codenamed “little boy”) on Hiroshima at 8:15am on 6 August 1945. All of a sudden the line “the kiss you give is never ever gonna fade away” revealed it’s true meaning.
