Music...

Music was my First love...
I love music. I feel like I have lived in two worlds, one with music and one without...

I grew up with music at home. I had LP’s when I was young and when I was in my teens I had radio and TV (Top Of The Pops) then later on I cassette and CD’s and now it’s YouTube!

If there was a song I loved I would play that one song, for up to six months until I was truly satisfied! For me, one of the best features was the REPEAT button! Before that was invented, I would just put the stylus back onto that Song again and again and again...

Music of the future...
Music that I listened to when I was young, helped to shape my life, it brings me back in time to a moment of happiness or sadness.
Nothing beats LOUD music when you are happy!! And sometimes, nothing beats loud Music when you are SAD and LONELY and looking for Love!

Music of the past...
I have been to some fantastic concerts with my friends; having listened to the CD’s and love the Artist or Band then to hear them live! Awesome!
I remember after I left my Parents home, I lived on my own for five years, it was fantastic to iron to Music! Hoover to Music! Wash the dishes up to Music! Dust the rooms to Music! Relax in the bath to music! But I did all that at my Parent’s house anyway...

To live without Music would be impossible to do...
When I got married my Husband didn’t like my Music, and when I played the song the second time he said, “Do you have to play that again?” Little did he know I wanted to play it over and over and over and over again!
In my life when I was sad, the first thing I would do was to put some Music on, after I was married I would try and wait until my Husband went out with the dog to put it on, but then the moment had pasted, for I needed that Song two hours ago!
By the time our children came along, I got ‘used’ to been without Music, so they don’t know any of the songs I grew up with! I bought a DAB radio so I could listen to the sort of Music I like, but one of my kids will turn it off at the mains and say, “I don’t like that rubbish” while I am listening to it, which isn’t very often. For it they are in the house, and I put MY music on quiet, it is because I REALLY need it at that time, but yet even then it’s denied me, and I try to count to ten inside my head... of course that doesn’t work! Because for me, Music is Healing... it brings me Peace when I am worried or troubled...
So, as I am ‘starved’ of Music I find solace in Britain’s Got Talent, The X Factor and my Place of Worship, Oh and the adverts on TV...

In this world of trouble Music pulls me through...
Bryan Adam’s song stopped it getting to number one but it’s my song, More Than Words, by Extreme. My Dad had one enemy in the whole world, Me! He didn’t need to say, that he didn’t like me. What I learnt from that song was, you don’t have to say the words, “I hate you” you just know it. Or “I love you” for they are more than words...

It will be my Last...
My favourite song of all time is, “Killing Me Softly” by Roberta Flack.
I bought her album after I got married, I have never played it, I don’t need to, it’s in my Heart forever! I don’t even know all the words to the song, I just love her voice, it is pure and simple... I didn’t want anyone to ruin it and do a cover version, but eventually someone did, and I like that version too.
I have no Music in my car at the moment, just a radio so it stays on Radio 4 but in the past I have had cars that have had CD players and have enjoyed my Music in the car then...
Sometimes out of nowhere a Song I knew when I was younger will just pop into my head! At other times someone just need to say a Word and a Song comes into my head and stays with me for about a Week, I like when that happens for no one can take that away from me, or turn it down or off, and my Soul is truly Blessed!

John Miles.