![]() ![]() These sounds (and many others) are now like my own personal time machines, emotionally evocative with a specific power no other music could ever have for me. I turned thirteen in 1979, so for me it was Talking Heads, The Cars, The Clash, Elvis Costello, the B-52s, The Pretenders, Madness. Absorbing it until it becomes not only a part of us, but the soundtrack of that pivotal chapter in our lives. Time to sit around and listen to a new album, taking in each song, track by track, lick by lick, lyric by lyric, over and over. We have lots of time for it-at least I did. At that age music is more than just music, it’s a statement about who we are. But there’s something about the music we listen to when we’re in our teens that sets it apart, it seems to me. When I was a teenager music was a big part of my life. ![]() Mark joins us to talk about the impact music has had on his life and his books and gives us food for thought about the role it plays in all of our lives too. ![]() ![]() Today we welcome Mark Peter Hughes author of the novels I am the Wallpaper, A Crack in the Sky, Lemonade Mouth, which was made into a very successful Disney movie, and the recently released Lemonade Mouth Puckers Up. ![]()
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