A musical reminder

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BBC Radio Cornwall is currently playing Alison Moyet's Weak In The Presence Of Beauty; I think she has a great voice. The song reminds me of how I was rather surprised to see the video for Is it Love?: for much of the filming I know exactly where they must be, but eight miles from where I lived for years, though the site no longer exists, yet another aspect of the world that remains in my mind but is no longer relevant. I remain troubled by the strangeness of knowing lost things well. No wonder some older people like to talk about their world as it once was, it may feel like a way to keep what mattered to them still alive. For example, on other music of the period, Morrissey's parents lived rather near where I did, as he completed his education near where I started mine; I wondered if I had happened to see them at a local shopping precinct, then remembered that at least one precinct now looks very different, its previous form lingering only in memories and photographs.