Book - The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Let’s talk talk about a book today - The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce, a lovely story that resonates with me. If I had to summarize the book in one sentence it would be: how music can help people and deeply touch you no matter the language, the nationality or if you understand anything about music or not.
The book follows a record shop owner and his talent for offering to each customer exactly what they need. One day he meets a customer that will change his life.
A breezy and delightful book which is part love story, part journey through music.
Why not listen to a playlist of the character’s favourite songs?
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- Oh no not my baby, Aretha Franklin
- Concerto for two violins in D minor, Johann Sebastian Bach
- Starmania, David Bowie
- Prelude Op.28 No.15 in D♭ Major, “Raindrop”, Chopin
- A night to remember, Shalamar
- Statin Doll, Duke Ellington
- God save the Queen, Sex Pistols
- Kind of blue, Miles Davies
- Stairway to heaven, Led Zeppelin
- Into the mystic, Van Morrison
- Ain’t it funky now, James Brown
- Beata viscera, Pérotin
- Piano Sonata No. 14 in C♯ minor “Moonlight Sonata”, Beethoven
- Theme from shaft, Isaac Hayes
- Te Deum, Puccini
- Avarandado, João Gilberto
- Heyr, himna smidur, Irish chorus - not on the playlist
- Dido’s lament, Purcell
- Wild thing, The Troggs
- Adagio for strings, Barber
- Caroline no, The Beach Boys
- Strange fruit, Billie Holiday
- Messiah, Haendel
- Time has told me, Nick Drake
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