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Article: You're never too old to fall back in love with pop music; SOUNDING OFF.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 16, 2006
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Byline: PAUL CONNOLLY
THE memory still riles me today. When I was 20, my then-girlfriend, an otherwise beautiful, clever girl called Lauren, berated me for reading NME and Blues 'n' Soul magazine. "You can't still be interested in pop music at your age," she said witheringly. "It's childish."
The fact that I ended our relationship there and then might suggest that she had a point.
Nonetheless, how could I continue seeing someone who had lost interest in music at such an early age? Well, she hadn't completely lost interest - she rather admired Candy Flip's Strawberry Fields Forever, but was gobsmacked when I told her it was a cover of a Beatles ...