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<blockquote data-quote="Angela Channing" data-source="post: 242029" data-attributes="member: 33"><p>Hey [USER=22]@James from London[/USER], how are you? Thanks for your question.</p><p></p><p><strong>61. I’ve noticed you have an interestingly eclectic taste in music, Angela. Was music a bit part of your upbringing and in what way?</strong> [USER=22]@James from London[/USER]</p><p>Yes, I do have a very eclectic taste in music. I have a playlist on my phone which I listen to regularly which includes songs by Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Manic Street Preachers, Peter Tosh, The Chemical Brothers, Diana Ross, Elvis, Jean Michelle Jarre, Lady Gaga, and Jacques Brel amongst many others. I'm not sure where my wide taste in music came from because it wasn't a big part in my upbringing. We had an old record player which I only remember as being broken and there were greater financial priorities than buying a new one so the only music I heard was on the radio or singing in church. There was a pile a records belonging to my parents that never got played but I remembered some of the artists and when I started buying music I bought some of their albums which is how I was introduced to the music of The Platters, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis and Ray Charles.</p><p></p><p>There weren't as many radio stations when I was young just the BBC ones and a few commercial stations but it felt like I listened to them all as we didn't have any loyalty to any one station so maybe that was how I got exposed to a wide range of music.</p><p></p><p><strong>62. Where you influenced by your parents’ and siblings’ tastes in music? </strong>[USER=22]@James from London[/USER]</p><p>I wasn't heavily influence by my parents' musical choices when I was young but that changed completely when I got to my 20s. I was however heavily influence my by brother who liked bands like Madness, The Specials and The Pretenders and my sisters who liked Abba. My mother was a Motown fan. I recall buying my mother a Diana Ross Greatest Hits album as a Christmas present as she was a fan but I ending up playing it more than she did as the music was so good and she remains my favourite artist of all time to this day. That album was my gateway to Motown, especially Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and the incredible Tammi Terrell, and I still listen to their music all the time.</p><p></p><p><strong>63. How do you think your relationship to music changed over the years?</strong> [USER=22]@James from London[/USER]</p><p>I kind of touched on this in my previous answer. When I was young I mostly liked the music that was in the charts but as I got older I broadened my tastes and started to listen to a lot more music from the 1950s and 1960s. I also got into world music, especially music from France (I really like Jacques Brel, Charles Trenet and Michel Legrand). I listen to a lot more music now than I did 20 years ago mainly because I have so much of it on my phone which is always with me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Angela Channing, post: 242029, member: 33"] Hey [USER=22]@James from London[/USER], how are you? Thanks for your question. [B]61. I’ve noticed you have an interestingly eclectic taste in music, Angela. Was music a bit part of your upbringing and in what way?[/B] [USER=22]@James from London[/USER] Yes, I do have a very eclectic taste in music. I have a playlist on my phone which I listen to regularly which includes songs by Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Manic Street Preachers, Peter Tosh, The Chemical Brothers, Diana Ross, Elvis, Jean Michelle Jarre, Lady Gaga, and Jacques Brel amongst many others. I'm not sure where my wide taste in music came from because it wasn't a big part in my upbringing. We had an old record player which I only remember as being broken and there were greater financial priorities than buying a new one so the only music I heard was on the radio or singing in church. There was a pile a records belonging to my parents that never got played but I remembered some of the artists and when I started buying music I bought some of their albums which is how I was introduced to the music of The Platters, Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis and Ray Charles. There weren't as many radio stations when I was young just the BBC ones and a few commercial stations but it felt like I listened to them all as we didn't have any loyalty to any one station so maybe that was how I got exposed to a wide range of music. [B]62. Where you influenced by your parents’ and siblings’ tastes in music? [/B][USER=22]@James from London[/USER] I wasn't heavily influence by my parents' musical choices when I was young but that changed completely when I got to my 20s. I was however heavily influence my by brother who liked bands like Madness, The Specials and The Pretenders and my sisters who liked Abba. My mother was a Motown fan. I recall buying my mother a Diana Ross Greatest Hits album as a Christmas present as she was a fan but I ending up playing it more than she did as the music was so good and she remains my favourite artist of all time to this day. That album was my gateway to Motown, especially Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and the incredible Tammi Terrell, and I still listen to their music all the time. [B]63. How do you think your relationship to music changed over the years?[/B] [USER=22]@James from London[/USER] I kind of touched on this in my previous answer. When I was young I mostly liked the music that was in the charts but as I got older I broadened my tastes and started to listen to a lot more music from the 1950s and 1960s. I also got into world music, especially music from France (I really like Jacques Brel, Charles Trenet and Michel Legrand). I listen to a lot more music now than I did 20 years ago mainly because I have so much of it on my phone which is always with me. [/QUOTE]
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