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If you can, take yourself back to 1999. What were you doing, thinking and listening to? Perhaps you were partying along with Prince (see what I’ve done there)? For me, one of my favourite songs was this one, Metamorphis, by Delirious.

Have you ever had the Brexit blues (regardless of what side of the fence you sit on)? Are you fed up with the uncertainty, or bored of the media frenzy and speculation? Then the lyrics from Blur’s This is a Low, might have a familiar feel.

The final part of our trilogy of articles on love (look out for potential future prequels and sequels a la Star Wars!) considers what we can learn about love from this power ballad by Jennifer Rush.

So, in part one of The Power of Love, we thought of how love is sacrificial and therefore costly. This brings us nicely to one of the things Huey Lewis and the News observe about love, the cost isn’t money.

Some songs contain such a high idealism that we just have to listen in awe and be inspired. The idea of love as a cleansing power is one of those lofty ideals.

This iconic Bob Dylan anthem opens with a rhetorical question of philosophical importance to our wellbeing regarding what it means to be a human and the journey which takes us there The response is equally as philosophical ...