The 1960's - I was in my 20's, newly married & an unexpected mother. Well not unexpected after 9 months obviously! It was a good decade for pop music - The Beatles, Cilla Black, The Animals, Manfred Man....
I have never been able to work to the sound of background music, but music has always been very important to me. I'm very eclectic, I like classical, choral, opera, jazz, blues, pop. The pop songs of the 60's to the 90's are the ones I still know the words to.
My point is that music is really important to human beings. Worldwide we have had different musical styles since the earliest times. Good music reaches the parts other things can't reach & often sums up how we feel. There is a close emotional involvement with music of all types. We really need it to be happy.
So the song "Silence is Golden" resonates with me at the moment. Because of memories & also because silence is a new phenomenon living in a city in the time of Covid. (Apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez).
Yes there are people out & yes there are solitary cars on my street. But nothing like how it was 3 short weeks ago. Life has changed, the cities have changed. The threat of Covid 19 looms everywhere. The sun is shining, the birds sing, the trees are clothed in leaf & & blossom. Our spectacular world continues it's seasons, oblivious to the silent threat to all of us humans.
Maybe it is only fair. We humans have threatened the natural world for decades. We humans created the circumstances for this new silent threat to exist. One theory is that the virus mutated & moved from a bat to a Pangolin to a human via a live animal market in Wuhan.
However this virus arrived it is threatening us in ways we were ill prepared for. Maybe the silence will give us the time to think.
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