David Darling
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349 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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So I'd be downstairs playing with my toys and she'd be upstairs doing something.
And she would be singing in full voice, you know, like an opera singer.
Uh which to most people would seem quite strange, but to me because it was
Happening every
Day, it was just the normal thing.
My friends would come in and say, You know, where's that coming from?
I say it's just my mum singing.
I think it was on the radio or something.
So later in life, towards the end of her life, she she she had Alzheimer's.
But the strange thing was, and and I think many people have seen this too, is that if something came on the radio, a song on the radio that she knew from when she was young, all of a sudden
She remembered the lyrics, she remembered the tune, and she'd be singing along with it just like the old days, you know, even after she could barely form a sentence.
So that had a powerful effect on me because I thought there's something going on here that music is is different, you know.
There's parts uh parts of the brain that are not affected as much um by Alzheimer's, uh that the musical ability at least is not uh as as as touched.
And of course these days um Alzheimer's choirs, dementia choirs, are are springing up everywhere because people are
you know, realizing the
The benefits that uh music brings to community singing, but people with Alzheimer's who can still enjoy life, they can become alive.
when they're um singing singing music.
So music has this almost sort of magical
is is is is music universal?
And this is where I I think it is because it's mathematical in its basis.
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