When Laura Nye Falsone’s first child was born in 1996, the Wallflowers album Bringing Down the Horse was a big hit. “All I have to hear are the first notes from One Headlight, and I am back to dancing ... with my brand-new baby boy in my arms,” she says. “It fills my heart with joy every time.”
When Carol Howard’s early-onset Alzheimer’s worsened, often she couldn’t recognise her husband. She once introduced him as her father. But if she heard a 1960s Simon & Garfunkel song playing, Howard, a marine biologist who died in 2019, could sing every word “effortlessly”, her husband says.
