The Music Never Stopped

00:36:47,369 --> 00:36:48,597 - Sure. - Okay. 569 00:36:55,310 --> 00:36:56,334 There you go. 570 00:37:04,553 --> 00:37:07,886 You know how you hear a song, and you fall in love with it, 571 00:37:07,923 --> 00:37:11,051 and it may be years before you hear it again, 572 00:37:11,092 --> 00:37:14,027 but when you do, it instantly places you back in that moment 573 00:37:14,062 --> 00:37:17,361 when you first fell in love with it, as if no time had passed? 574 00:37:17,499 --> 00:37:19,490 Yes. In fact, Gabriel and I 575 00:37:19,534 --> 00:37:22,128 used to play a game where I'd ask him about a song, 576 00:37:22,304 --> 00:37:24,966 and he'd tell me the story that went with it. 577 00:37:25,006 --> 00:37:26,496 That's why I brought that music in. 578 00:37:26,541 --> 00:37:28,475 That's the music we used to listen to. 579 00:37:28,510 --> 00:37:31,308 Well, it's, uh--it's not the music he loved, 580 00:37:31,346 --> 00:37:36,113 or at least it's not the music that resonates with him. 581 00:37:36,151 --> 00:37:39,609 I don't think the piece on the radio that night was the Marseillaise. 582 00:37:39,654 --> 00:37:43,715 I think it was the Beatles' song, All You Need is Love, 583 00:37:43,758 --> 00:37:46,784 which uses the Marseillaise in its introduction. 584 00:37:46,828 --> 00:37:48,955 I think that's the song that Gabriel was anticipating 585 00:37:48,997 --> 00:37:50,396 when we played him the Marseillaise. 586 00:37:50,432 --> 00:37:53,424 What happened when you played him that Beatles song? 587 00:37:53,468 --> 00:37:56,096 Oh, Helen, if you could have seen him. 588 00:37:56,137 --> 00:38:00,506 He was totally connected. 589 00:38:00,542 --> 00:38:03,306 He was as you've described him, Henry. 590 00:38:03,345 --> 00:38:04,334 He was normal. 591 00:38:04,379 --> 00:38:06,074 And it wasn't just the Beatles. 592 00:38:06,114 --> 00:38:09,550 I actually was able to use pieces of music from that period 593 00:38:09,584 --> 00:38:12,985 to more specifically pinpoint the extent of his amnesia. 594 00:38:13,021 --> 00:38:18,015 He remembers songs vividly from 1964 to 1970. 595 00:38:18,059 --> 00:38:20,823 His recollection of songs after 1970 596 00:38:20,862 --> 00:38:24,423 show us where his memory begins to drop off. 597 00:38:24,466 --> 00:38:26,127 He remembers all the founding members 598 00:38:26,167 --> 00:38:28,101 of the Grateful Dead from 1966, 599 00:38:28,136 --> 00:38:32,038 but he doesn't know that Pigpen and Jimi Hendrix 600 00:38:32,073 --> 00:38:34,541 and Janis Joplin are all dead. 601 00:38:35,810 --> 00:38:38,745 I didn't know they were ever alive, and I'm no worse for wear. 602 00:38:38,780 --> 00:38:40,543 Yes, but for him, 603 00:38:40,582 --> 00:38:43,983 these musicians are all hugely important. 604 00:38:44,019 --> 00:38:47,386 They connect him to a time and a place, 605 00:38:47,422 --> 00:38:49,947 to his time and place when he came of age, 606 00:38:49,991 --> 00:38:52,391 just like your music does for you. 607 00:38:53,628 --> 00:38:55,425 My music was his music. 608 00:38:56,097 --> 00:38:58,622 He used to listen to that music as a kid. 609 00:38:58,667 --> 00:39:00,191 It never upset him. 610 00:39:00,235 --> 00:39:01,668 I don't understand. 611 00:39:02,704 --> 00:39:05,366 It doesn't make sense to me. He loved my music, too. 612 00:39:09,778 --> 00:39:11,370 Hi, Gabriel. 613 00:39:11,413 --> 00:39:13,608 It's Dianne. 614 00:39:13,648 --> 00:39:15,843 Dianne from Cheyenne. 615 00:39:16,952 --> 00:39:20,046 Actually, Gabriel, I'm not from Cheyenne. 616 00:39:20,088 --> 00:39:22,750 I'm Dianne Daly from Dedham, Massachusetts. 617 00:39:22,791 --> 00:39:24,258 That's where I was born. 618 00:39:24,292 --> 00:39:26,351 Dianne Daly, live from Dedham. 619 00:39:26,394 --> 00:39:28,794 That's good. 620 00:39:29,297 --> 00:39:31,060 We'll have to try and remember that. 621 00:39:41,743 --> 00:39:44,735 I love the Dead. 622 00:39:44,779 --> 00:39:46,713 Uncle John's Band. 623 00:39:46,748 --> 00:39:49,273 It's one of my favorite songs. 624 00:39:50,952 --> 00:39:54,752 You know, I almost got to see them play once. 625 00:39:54,789 --> 00:39:56,757 Did you ever play any of their songs, 626 00:39:56,791 --> 00:39:58,588 like when your band played at the school? 627 00:39:58,626 --> 00:39:59,650 No. 628 00:39:59,694 --> 00:40:03,221 I mean, we would have, but I never got to it. 629 00:40:03,264 --> 00:40:04,492 My dad was coming. 630 00:40:04,532 --> 00:40:06,659 I wanted to play Kansas City for him. 631 00:40:06,701 --> 00:40:09,898 It was his brother's favorite song. 632 00:40:09,938 --> 00:40:14,136 # All the kids, they want today # 633 00:40:14,175 --> 00:40:16,803 # All they ever think about # 634 00:40:16,845 --> 00:40:19,405 # It's about summer # 635 00: