While new therapeutic progress has been announced in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, let’s listen to how the song has taken up this theme in recent years.
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Dear Julos Beaucarne, very dear Julos Beaucarne, who has so often put words of surprising accuracy and humanity to the tragedies of our lives. This song from 2006 nevertheless has a tragic title – Alzheimer’s Castaways. But the singer says how much he loves the one who is affected by the illness, and who loses his memory, and who gradually loses his presence in the world.
The song didn’t talk about it until the last fifteen or twenty years. Then the songs arrived, with characters described in the third person singular, as with Romain Didier in 2005 or in the first person singular, as with Serge Lama in 2016.
In the first episode of These songs that make the news this weekend you hear excerpts from:
Julos Beaucarne, Alzheimer’s Shipwrecked, 2006
Romain Didier, Elsa Heimer, 2005
Serge Lama, The Bell Tower of Elsinore, 2016
The Wriggles, Sorry grandma, 2007
Zaz, If I lose, 2013
M, Deliver, 2009
Louis Chedid, Mummy mummy, 2010
Georges Chelon, Absence, 2024
Julos Beaucarne, Alzheimer’s Shipwrecked, 2006
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