Sometimes even music you don’t like can take you on surprise journeys. Take the song Mambo Number Five, a late Nineties “party anthem” by Lou Bega that went to No 1 around the world. It’s a song that I loathe and yet when I hear it — mostly in branches of Costcutter — I’m immediately transported from the pickles and relishes aisle to backpacking, aged 21, along the Mozambique coast road. SponsoredNo prizes for guessing who was in charge of the music. On our way up that

Source: The Times February 25, 2021 16:52 UTC