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Article: Airlines are not on song with their choice of music on planes ; THE MAN WHO PAYS HIS WAY
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 18, 2006
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Do airlines give any thought to the music that warbles out of the
tinny loudspeakers aboard flights before take-off and after landing?
When a much-delayed Binter Canarias flight from Marrakesh to Las
Palmas touched down, the cabin was filled with Simply Red's
rendition of "If You Don't Know Me by Now". We clock-watchers noted
that the track began half way through, just before the line "When I
come home a little late at night..."
The Portuguese national carrier, TAP Portugal, goes one better.
As the Airbus prepared to leave Heathrow, the economy cabin was
treated to "A Whiter Shade of Pale", which left one or two nervous
passengers even more ashen-faced. Upon safely touching down in
Lisbon, ...