Musically, we’re all stuck in the middle with you, Ken Bruce | Barbara Ellen

The success of the likes of Greatest Hits Radio is because old songs have the power to conjure memories of our youth

What’s the deal with ears – why do they seem to age at triple the rate of the rest of the human body? I don’t mean physically, but rather in terms of what music an individual deems magical, or even tolerable. And how, for many, there’s only one true music – the music of their youth – and everything else is cacophony, sacrilege, torture.

Maybe this explains how the “boomer” has risen again in a terrifying new form. Since moving from BBC Radio 2 to Greatest Hits Radio, DJ Ken Bruce has almost doubled the number of listeners to his morning show, in what’s being perceived as a kind of grassroots rebellion of the grey pound.

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