# Classic Music Saved Me with Simon Davies-Executive Director Teen Cancer America

An episode of [Music Saved Me Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1703080557), 24 Sep 2025, 26 min.

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Join Lynn Hoffman on the classic replay with Simon Davies, Executive Director Teen Cancer America.Teen Cancer America engages and supports hospitals and outpatient facilities care programs for young children and young adults dealing with the challenges of cancer. The organization was founded by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who. Support the show: https://musicsavedme.net/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Music Saved Me.
[0:01] Speaker 2: You know, I think to be able to give back,
[0:04] Speaker 2: you know, their their talent and their creativity to people
[0:09] Speaker 2: that are going to benefit from it on a deeply
[0:12] Speaker 2: personal level is a gift, and I would like to
[0:16] Speaker 2: think that they can all recognize that that what they
[0:20] Speaker 2: have is a gift to be able to help people
[0:24] Speaker 2: through difficult times.
[0:25] Speaker 1: I'm Lynn Hoffman, and welcome to this episode of the
[0:28] Speaker 1: Music Saved Me podcast, the podcast that delves deep into
[0:32] Speaker 1: the healing power of music. If you like this podcast,
[0:35] Speaker 1: thank you so much. Please share it with your friends,
[0:37] Speaker 1: and also please check out our companion podcast from Buzznight
[0:41] Speaker 1: Media Productions called Taking a Walk Music History on Foot,
[0:45] Speaker 1: hosted by buzz which is available wherever you get your podcasts.
[0:49] Speaker 1: Now today, I'm so excited I get to speak with
[0:51] Speaker 1: Simon Davies. He is the executive director of Team Cancer America,
[0:57] Speaker 1: which was founded by Roger Daltrey and Heat Townsend of
[1:01] Speaker 1: The Who Now. Simon and his team have a mission
[1:04] Speaker 1: which is increasing the survival and improving the lives of
[1:08] Speaker 1: adolescents and young adults with cancer by transforming hospitals to
[1:12] Speaker 1: better serve their needs. It's a noble cause and We're
[1:15] Speaker 1: thrilled to have them here. Simon, welcome to music save meh.
[1:20] Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to be here. I'm really looking forward
[1:23] Speaker 2: to the conversation me too.
[1:25] Speaker 1: Let's start out by having you tell us about the
[1:28] Speaker 1: important work of Teen Cancer America and how you became involved.
[1:33] Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'll go back a long way, so well,
[1:36] Speaker 2: we'll just start with seeing Cancer America to begin with.
[1:39] Speaker 2: But basically, as you know, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townsend
[1:46] Speaker 2: of the who are the founders of this organization, and
[1:49] Speaker 2: it's really built on a lot of work that happened
[1:52] Speaker 2: in the UK. I was the chief executive of an
[1:55] Speaker 2: organization called Teenage Cancer Trust in the UK and we
[1:59] Speaker 2: did a lot of work there. Roger and Pete love
[2:02] Speaker 2: what we'd achieved and they asked me to do something
[2:05] Speaker 2: to help them develop a charity here in America, which
[2:10] Speaker 2: I did with a not with an idea that i'd
[2:13] Speaker 2: end up here, but I have ands eleven years later
[2:16] Speaker 2: that I've now been the executive director of Ting Cancer
[2:20] Speaker 2: America and we've made a lot of progress here, so
[2:24] Speaker 2: I'm excited about that. But the principle of why we
[2:29] Speaker 2: do what we do is really very simple. The health
[2:34] Speaker 2: systems as they are established now and have been for
[2:39] Speaker 2: many many years, are siloed principally into pediatric cancer care
[2:44] Speaker 2: and adult can sircure and pediatric can sircure. The average
[2:49] Speaker 2: age of a hospital in the US in a pediatric
[2:53] Speaker 2: hospital is six and in the adult world, the adult hospitals,
[2:59] Speaker 2: the average ages sixty. And it doesn't take much imagination
[3:04] Speaker 2: to think about that from an adolescence point of view
[3:08] Speaker 2: or a young adults point of view. We work with
[3:11] Speaker 2: adolescents and young adults, and both of those communities feel
[3:16] Speaker 2: very left out of the environments and the places that
[3:20] Speaker 2: they find themselves in because it's isolating to be amongst
[3:25] Speaker 2: very young children and everything is designed around Disney and
[3:31] Speaker 2: all of the things that you expect to see at
[3:33] Speaker 2: a children's hospital and that are six foot adolescent doesn't
[3:37] Speaker 2: really feel like they fit into. And likewise, in the
[3:40] Speaker 2: adult world, most everything is geared up towards much older
[3:43] Speaker 2: people and feel very isolated in that setting. And our goal,
[3:50] Speaker 2: our mission is to change really and create a new paradigm,
[3:55] Speaker 2: which is adolescent and young adult cancer, so that coming
[3:59] Speaker 2: together pediatric and adult care in order to create a
[4:03] Speaker 2: specialty that's just around adolescents and young adults, and that's
[4:08] Speaker 2: on the basis of their clinical needs in terms of
[4:11] Speaker 2: the treatments that they have, because sometimes those have been
[4:13] Speaker 2: designed for older or younger people and they're not right
[4:16] Speaker 2: for this age group, but also their psychological and social
[4:20] Speaker 2: welfare whilst they're being treated, and making sure that they
[4:24] Speaker 2: have opportunities to experience what they need in terms of
[4:28] Speaker 2: social support, in terms of the experience that they have,
[4:31] Speaker 2: the environment even that they're in that's created much more
[4:35] Speaker 2: for them, and create a specialism. So we're kind of
[4:40] Speaker 2: trying to, I suppose, bring about an awkward merger how
[4:45] Speaker 2: you might describe it, between two silos that have not
[4:49] Speaker 2: communicated well before and bringing them together to develop a
[4:53] Speaker 2: specialist service for these young people and ultimately improve their
[4:56] Speaker 2: experience and their outcomes and their survival.
[5:00] Speaker 1: It's very special what you do, and when you do
[5:02] Speaker 1: think about it, when you put it that way, you
[5:05] Speaker 1: don't really ever see or hear anything that's geared towards
[5:09] Speaker 1: this critical time in people's lives when they're growing I
[5:14] Speaker 1: mean young like you said, and old, but right there
[5:16] Speaker 1: in that sweet spot. It's so so critical. Besides all
[5:22] Speaker 1: the other things that they're dealing with in their life,
[5:24] Speaker 1: then they've gone to keep this on top, which is
[5:27] Speaker 1: what really made me so excited to meet you. When
[5:30] Speaker 1: I did our pats crossed at an event that you
[5:32] Speaker 1: were throwing and it made me see I believe Rob
[5:36] Speaker 1: Zombie was there. So there was this music element, and
[5:40] Speaker 1: also you had them in the creative process, which I
[5:43] Speaker 1: think music well. On this podcast, we talk about how
[5:48] Speaker 1: music can be a healing device, and so that's why
[5:54] Speaker 1: I was so interested in having you come on to
[5:56] Speaker 1: talk about this, because you do bring a lot of
[5:59] Speaker 1: that creative together to help them manage. Also, I've had
[6:03] Speaker 1: a lot of artists come on this show, young and writers,
[6:08] Speaker 1: Beth Nielsen, Chapman, Danielia Cotton. I can go on a
[6:13] Speaker 1: list who have faced this in their lives and persevered
[6:17] Speaker 1: because of the music. Yeah, so I had to talk
[6:22] Speaker 1: to you.
[6:23] Speaker 3: It was my mission.
[6:24] Speaker 1: Can you share a personal experience where maybe music has
[6:28] Speaker 1: helped you through a difficult time?
[6:31] Speaker 3: Boy?
[6:32] Speaker 2: Many you know, I think music is such a is
[6:37] Speaker 2: such a a genre which I think connects everybody in
[6:45] Speaker 2: so many different ways, and I can think, I mean,
[6:51] Speaker 2: I guess you know, the most the most emotional of
[6:56] Speaker 2: the music that has affected me is to you know,
[7:01] Speaker 2: the love of my life. And I still now listen
[7:04] Speaker 2: to music that means something to our relationship after almost
[7:09] Speaker 2: fifty years of being together. You know, and there are
[7:12] Speaker 2: you know, there there, there are, there's music that evokes
[7:16] Speaker 2: those moments from many years ago when we first met,
[7:19] Speaker 2: and it's you know, it's a it's a motivational thing
[7:24] Speaker 2: in our in our partnership, and we share it.
[7:28] Speaker 1: In your opinion, what makes music so powerful? What is
[7:32] Speaker 1: it about music that helps so much with with our emotions,
[7:35] Speaker 1: with our healing.
[7:37] Speaker 2: I mean, and this isn't just a viewpoint, you know,
[7:40] Speaker 2: this is proven. You know that music does have an
[7:43] Speaker 2: intrinsic value in the healing process. And for example, we
[7:50] Speaker 2: are now embarking on a global initiative to have young
[7:57] Speaker 2: people share the music that has helped them get through
[8:01] Speaker 2: their cancer experience. And so we're creating a global playlist
[8:08] Speaker 2: from all around the world that people are contributing to
[8:11] Speaker 2: of the music that has helped them during their cancer journey,
[8:14] Speaker 2: so that we can have this as a library and
[8:16] Speaker 2: accessible to all the people that are going through And
[8:19] Speaker 2: I think it's a you know, it's a visceral thing.
[8:22] Speaker 2: You know music inspires people anyway, but I think it's
[8:26] Speaker 2: a place that people turn to at times of crisis
[8:31] Speaker 2: where they can really connect with something that is meaningful
[8:37] Speaker 2: to them and gives them, you know, confidence and can
[8:42] Speaker 2: help them through those moments.
[8:45] Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. And mental health is
[8:47] Speaker 1: also a pretty significant topic, especially recent days. How do
[8:54] Speaker 1: you think that musicians can use their platform to address
[8:58] Speaker 1: mental health issues, which I would assume is a large
[9:01] Speaker 1: part of going through a diagnosis of cancer, much less
[9:06] Speaker 1: just teenage.
[9:08] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean there are many kind of stress points,
[9:11] Speaker 2: you know, and feelings of depression and hopelessness and isolation,
[9:19] Speaker 2: and so music can often be an inspiration or a
[9:25] Speaker 2: therapy or a relaxation during a stressful moment. And I
[9:31] Speaker 2: think musicians that are you know, have the especially for
[9:38] Speaker 2: young people. You know, musicians that they know and that
[9:42] Speaker 2: they love anyway, are tremendously powerful in their lives. You know,
[9:48] Speaker 2: people will not just talk about this piece of music
[9:51] Speaker 2: that got me through. It'll be this artist that got
[9:53] Speaker 2: me through, because it's their songs and what they create,
[9:57] Speaker 2: and so that has meaning. And so from a musician's perspective,
[10:03] Speaker 2: you know, I think to be able to give back,
[10:06] Speaker 2: you know, their their talent and their creativity to people
[10:11] Speaker 2: that are going to benefit from it on a deeply
[10:14] Speaker 2: personal level is a gift, and I would like to
[10:18] Speaker 2: think that they can all recognize that that what they
[10:23] Speaker 2: have is a gift to be able to help people
[10:26] Speaker 2: through difficult times.
[10:28] Speaker 1: Speaking of gifts, can you tell us where we can
[10:31] Speaker 1: hear or see some of these songs that you're collecting
[10:35] Speaker 1: from around the world from teenagers.
[10:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to be creating out a special part
[10:40] Speaker 2: of our website. We've only just started, but we will do.
[10:43] Speaker 2: You can go to to Team Cancer America dot org,
[10:47] Speaker 2: which is our website, so that again teen Cancer America
[10:51] Speaker 2: dot org and you can find out about all of
[10:54] Speaker 2: our music initiatives there. But we're going to create this
[10:59] Speaker 2: global list and have that link so that people can
[11:02] Speaker 2: just come to the site and add their own.
[11:04] Speaker 1: Their own music. That's great, Well, thank you and please
[11:07] Speaker 1: keep us posted on that. I definitely want to know.
[11:10] Speaker 1: Have you seen any changes in how society views mental
[11:14] Speaker 1: health in relation to the arts over the years.
[11:17] Speaker 2: I mean, I think that certainly mental health is hugely
[11:23] Speaker 2: on the agenda at the moment, which is great. People
[11:26] Speaker 2: are being much more open about it, and there's a
[11:29] Speaker 2: lot more talk about it. When I think about adolescents
[11:34] Speaker 2: and young adults particularly, there's an awful lot that's related
[11:37] Speaker 2: to social media and some of the challenges that that
[11:42] Speaker 2: brings in terms of its opportunity but also its challenges
[11:47] Speaker 2: in some of its sort of social isolation that sometimes
[11:52] Speaker 2: has created. And so I think mental health is definitely
[11:59] Speaker 2: it's definitely on the agenda. It's being talked about more openly,
[12:03] Speaker 2: and people are talking personally about their experiences, whether there
[12:07] Speaker 2: artists or whether they are people who are going through
[12:10] Speaker 2: a mental health crisis. So I think it's it's also
[12:18] Speaker 2: it's a kind of a normalizing process. You know, we
[12:21] Speaker 2: all have struggles, and there's a sort of spectrum from
[12:25] Speaker 2: you know that just the everyday anxieties through to the crisis.
[12:31] Speaker 2: And I think just that openness and how you know,
[12:35] Speaker 2: music is related to that, and it's being expressed in
[12:40] Speaker 2: music and song, and it's being expressed by the people
[12:44] Speaker 2: who are the creators of it. I think this has
[12:47] Speaker 2: to be just a very positive message for the world.
[12:52] Speaker 1: Looking ahead, what are your goals for the next few
[12:56] Speaker 1: years with Team Cancer America.
[12:59] Speaker 2: Well, in terms of our core work, just with the hospitals.
[13:04] Speaker 2: You know, we're probably working with about sixty hospitals now
[13:08] Speaker 2: we'd like to be working with a couple of hundred.
[13:10] Speaker 2: So we want to make sure that every single young
[13:12] Speaker 2: person in America has access to these specialist services and
[13:18] Speaker 2: facilities and can feel comfort and help by that. But
[13:23] Speaker 2: we also have been doing a lot of work on
[13:26] Speaker 2: developing a music program, which is we call it Play
[13:32] Speaker 2: It Back, and it's a music education program for young people.
[13:36] Speaker 2: My colleague Kellery Gan and Kenny Matthis who's the music educator,
[13:42] Speaker 2: they had got together and created this thing and it's
[13:47] Speaker 2: really taken off and it's down to their knowledge and
[13:51] Speaker 2: expertise about how to work with these young people that
[13:53] Speaker 2: it's as successful as it is. And it was started
[13:58] Speaker 2: actually at the request of two parents, two sets of parents,
[14:06] Speaker 2: both of whom had lost their sons around the same
[14:11] Speaker 2: time to different cancers, but around the same age the
[14:15] Speaker 2: same time, and they both said to us, we love
[14:18] Speaker 2: what you do, want to we want to support you.
[14:22] Speaker 2: But what really made a difference to both of our
[14:26] Speaker 2: sons was music and their ability. They were both they
[14:31] Speaker 2: were both singer songwriters, and they had used music and
[14:35] Speaker 2: poetry as a way of getting through the cancer experience,
[14:39] Speaker 2: even though they didn't survive, and they said, we would
[14:42] Speaker 2: like to raise some money for you, but we'd like
[14:44] Speaker 2: it to go into a music program. Now, these were
[14:46] Speaker 2: not rich people, and they were at the kind of
[14:50] Speaker 2: bake sale level of fundraising, and they between them they
[14:57] Speaker 2: managed to get together about twenty thousand dollars over about
[15:01] Speaker 2: a year and they helped us create this play at
[15:07] Speaker 2: Back music program, which we have now extended. I mean,
[15:10] Speaker 2: it's now an extraordinary program. And the premise behind it
[15:15] Speaker 2: is it's not it's about it's accessible to anybody who's
[15:18] Speaker 2: going through cancer, regardless of their musical ability. But it's
[15:23] Speaker 2: all about helping them to become singer songwriters. It's about
[15:28] Speaker 2: their enabling them, at whatever level of ability they have,
[15:32] Speaker 2: to be able to express themselves through music and to.
[15:36] Speaker 3: Record that.
[15:37] Speaker 2: And we help them not only record it, but record
[15:40] Speaker 2: it to a very high standard so that they actually have.
[15:45] Speaker 3: Whether they whether that ever would get.
[15:48] Speaker 2: Used commercially or whatever, that might be their thing, but
[15:51] Speaker 2: at the very least, it's a legacy of a very
[15:53] Speaker 2: good quality thing. And I want to just share something
[15:56] Speaker 2: with you because today today from one of the parents,
[16:01] Speaker 2: I got a. I got a card with one thousand
[16:07] Speaker 2: dollars from one of those parents who give us us
[16:10] Speaker 2: some money every year, and he said that today is
[16:14] Speaker 2: Danny's birthday, and Danny was his son, and he wanted
[16:18] Speaker 2: to give this gift to us for our player Back
[16:21] Speaker 2: music program because we've connected, we've reconnected with them and
[16:24] Speaker 2: we keep giving them updates on how it's going and everything,
[16:27] Speaker 2: and they're.
[16:28] Speaker 3: So happy to have been part of it.
[16:31] Speaker 2: And it's a card and it is with a quote
[16:35] Speaker 2: on it from one of Danny's songs, which says the
[16:42] Speaker 2: sky is bright with tender hope, and that's one of
[16:48] Speaker 2: his one of his poems. And they just keep giving
[16:54] Speaker 2: to us. And there's a picture of Danny.
[16:57] Speaker 3: He was lost.
[16:58] Speaker 1: Oh what a handsome young man.
[17:00] Speaker 3: Beautiful guy to learn about. And there's a Dannyilly dot com.
[17:08] Speaker 2: You can look at Dannyiley dot com and learn about
[17:11] Speaker 2: him and see his music. But that inspired us. They
[17:14] Speaker 2: inspired us to say, right, we're going to do this thing,
[17:17] Speaker 2: and it's become a really important part of what we do. Obviously,
[17:22] Speaker 2: we want to get all that change done in hospitals,
[17:24] Speaker 2: but we know that music is incredibly important to young
[17:28] Speaker 2: people going through this terrible disease. And what we are
[17:32] Speaker 2: enabling them to do is to write their own music,
[17:37] Speaker 2: to write their songs, and we connect them around the country.
[17:45] Speaker 2: So we have young people in different parts of the
[17:47] Speaker 2: country who are making music together because we had to
[17:49] Speaker 2: do that. We used to have it just as an
[17:51] Speaker 2: LA base, and then the pandemic came and so we
[17:54] Speaker 2: thought we were better go online and do this thing.
[17:56] Speaker 2: And now we have young people all around the country
[17:58] Speaker 2: working together, and we have some great musicians and artists
[18:04] Speaker 2: that have come along and helped us. And not just
[18:08] Speaker 2: not just the musicians and artists, but also technicians. We've
[18:13] Speaker 2: had engineers help us, We've had producers help us example,
[18:18] Speaker 2: but we've had some great people. You know, there's a
[18:22] Speaker 2: lot of opportunity for people to get involved, you know,
[18:24] Speaker 2: especially people, you know, creative people who want to help
[18:28] Speaker 2: young people and provide some sort of mentorship or help
[18:31] Speaker 2: them with learning a new instrument or whatever it takes.
[18:36] Speaker 1: Or even just to find an artist that gives them
[18:38] Speaker 1: solace just to listen to. Whether they're listening to it
[18:42] Speaker 1: or creating it, it all goes, I think hand in hand,
[18:46] Speaker 1: which is why I wanted you to come on because
[18:48] Speaker 1: besides just hounding you that I can do your commercials.
[18:53] Speaker 1: I want to do more to help this cause because
[18:56] Speaker 1: it is such a wonderful opportunity to give back, and
[19:00] Speaker 1: it's so I don't know how to explain it. It's
[19:04] Speaker 1: just not maybe as as known for for the reason.
[19:09] Speaker 1: And I know when it first arrived with Roger behind it,
[19:15] Speaker 1: that really gave it some incredible momentum.
[19:19] Speaker 2: For sure, you know, and obviously having the having somebody
[19:21] Speaker 2: like that who is fantastic, but John Oates who I
[19:26] Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, and he has been incredible and not only
[19:30] Speaker 2: is he given studio time and help people out, but
[19:33] Speaker 2: he's also put our young people in his video of him,
[19:38] Speaker 2: you know, and he's very personal about it, and that's
[19:40] Speaker 2: what we love about it. And Roger has been the
[19:45] Speaker 2: greatest ambassador you could wish for Pete too, but Pete
[19:49] Speaker 2: Pete's you know, is he helps in a quieter way.
[19:54] Speaker 2: Roger's the lead singer, you know, and he's his you know,
[19:58] Speaker 2: what he's done for us and the way he's connected
[20:01] Speaker 2: us with other people in the music industry and helped
[20:03] Speaker 2: us is.
[20:05] Speaker 3: Second to none. I can't you know.
[20:08] Speaker 2: It's a gift from heaven to have someone like Roger
[20:11] Speaker 2: helping you, for sure.
[20:13] Speaker 1: Roger's the best. And John Oates he recently just did
[20:17] Speaker 1: an episode of Buzz Night's Taking a Walk podcast, which
[20:21] Speaker 1: is great if you have a chance to check it out.
[20:24] Speaker 3: I love that. I'm glad that he's a very warm
[20:27] Speaker 3: and loving human being.
[20:29] Speaker 1: For sure, he sure is, and he's real as real
[20:32] Speaker 1: as it gets. And I think that's another thing that's
[20:34] Speaker 1: so important about what you're doing and what's happening, what
[20:41] Speaker 1: it seems to be happening in the world today with
[20:43] Speaker 1: the stigma of mental health, where people want to talk
[20:46] Speaker 1: and they just want to be real. They just don't
[20:48] Speaker 1: want to hear things that are heavily produced and perfected.
[20:51] Speaker 1: They just want the truth. They want to hear and
[20:54] Speaker 1: feel and know what people are going through so they're
[20:57] Speaker 1: not alone.
[20:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, connection. You know, you know, we're in
[21:02] Speaker 2: a world where it's possible to become very isolated, and
[21:05] Speaker 2: I think, you know, music is another way of connecting
[21:08] Speaker 2: and engaging and it's so important. It's so important, and
[21:15] Speaker 2: mental health in any kind of circumstances is a challenge.
[21:20] Speaker 2: If you're having mental health challenges at the time of
[21:24] Speaker 2: battling cancer, that's you know, that's a double whammy. That's
[21:28] Speaker 2: just so difficult to deal with. And to some extent,
[21:32] Speaker 2: everybody who goes through cancer has some kind of mental
[21:36] Speaker 2: health challenges for sure, because you know they're they're facing
[21:40] Speaker 2: the prospect that they might not survive. But young people
[21:44] Speaker 2: going through it, you know, it's a it's a difficult
[21:47] Speaker 2: time in life. There are changes they're you know, they're
[21:50] Speaker 2: they're they're going through bodily changes, they're going through psychological changes.
[21:55] Speaker 2: There it's it's an important time of education, it's an
[21:59] Speaker 2: import on time, a career development. All these things can
[22:03] Speaker 2: get messed up completely and that messes with you. That
[22:07] Speaker 2: messes with you when you're going through it. So it's
[22:11] Speaker 2: you know, the things that you can find to help
[22:14] Speaker 2: you get through the night. And music is a big
[22:16] Speaker 2: part of that for young people, there's no doubt about that.
[22:20] Speaker 1: Let me ask you before I let you go, how
[22:22] Speaker 1: do you personally stay inspired and connected to music in
[22:27] Speaker 1: your everyday life?
[22:28] Speaker 2: You know, I've got a very broad spectrum of music
[22:31] Speaker 2: interests and I am I like to I like to
[22:37] Speaker 2: listen to music according to what my mood is, and
[22:41] Speaker 2: I guess that's the same with everybody. So I'm not
[22:44] Speaker 2: trying to suggest I'm very special, but you know, you know,
[22:48] Speaker 2: there are times, you know, when you need a good
[22:50] Speaker 2: rock song, and there are times when you need a
[22:52] Speaker 2: good ballad and being a being a part of that
[22:56] Speaker 2: and having a you know, having a I'm pretty sort
[22:59] Speaker 2: of open mind about the interest that I have. So
[23:03] Speaker 2: you know, I can listen to Andrea Bacelli's Romanza.
[23:08] Speaker 3: You know.
[23:08] Speaker 2: And and then you know, one of my all time
[23:12] Speaker 2: favorite American bands from when I was a teenager is
[23:16] Speaker 2: an old band called the Marshall Tucker Band, and you know,
[23:19] Speaker 2: they're all kind of you knowastic classic stuff, and you
[23:24] Speaker 2: know that can get me going. But you know, I've
[23:29] Speaker 2: just started getting into you know, Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga,
[23:35] Speaker 2: you know, and that single that they've got.
[23:37] Speaker 3: I love it, you know.
[23:37] Speaker 2: So it's it's just it's just an everyday part of
[23:41] Speaker 2: my life, and you know, you've got to make the
[23:46] Speaker 2: most of it. And you know, you use your catalog
[23:50] Speaker 2: for the for helping to inspire you in any part
[23:55] Speaker 2: of your day.
[23:56] Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like you open your medicine cabinet, pull out
[23:59] Speaker 1: this can't pull out the CD anymore, though you have
[24:02] Speaker 1: to Yeah, that's true.
[24:03] Speaker 2: You know, well, hang on a minute, what cs and
[24:07] Speaker 2: cassettes are making a comeback?
[24:08] Speaker 1: No, tell me more. How do you know?
[24:11] Speaker 2: Well you can read it in the in the news.
[24:13] Speaker 2: They're the new vinyl.
[24:17] Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
[24:17] Speaker 1: Oh so now vinyl came back, and now it's gone
[24:20] Speaker 1: to get.
[24:20] Speaker 2: Back and now everybody's getting out there old take cassettes
[24:24] Speaker 2: and you know we used to make those compilation tapes,
[24:26] Speaker 2: you know, and they're listening yes, yeah, yeah, And then
[24:31] Speaker 2: CDs too. CD's is not their place. So it's interesting.
[24:35] Speaker 2: I think we are. We're going through a few you know,
[24:40] Speaker 2: you need a bit of retro in order to counterbalance
[24:44] Speaker 2: the kind of high tech that's taking us an AI
[24:47] Speaker 2: and all that stuff. You know, a bit of retro
[24:50] Speaker 2: is good.
[24:51] Speaker 3: For the soul.
[24:52] Speaker 1: I love it. On that note, it's a perfect way
[24:55] Speaker 1: to end our conversation, although I don't ever want to
[24:57] Speaker 1: end a conversation with you. Simon Davies, Thanks so much
[25:00] Speaker 1: from Team Cancer America and my life in general. Thank
[25:04] Speaker 1: you so much for being here on Music Scation.
[25:07] Speaker 3: Thank you for the opportunity. It was good to talk
[25:10] Speaker 3: to you.
[25:10] Speaker 2: I love love our conversations, and thank you for all
[25:12] Speaker 2: your support because you're a special person to the charity
[25:16] Speaker 2: as is buzz Oh.
[25:17] Speaker 1: Before you go real quick, one more time, play it Back?
[25:20] Speaker 1: And where can people find all of this stuff we
[25:23] Speaker 1: were talking about.
[25:24] Speaker 2: Go to our website in Cancer America dot org. That's
[25:28] Speaker 2: te N Cancer America dot org and make sure that
[25:34] Speaker 2: you look into you're looking out for the Play It
[25:37] Speaker 2: Back music program. And then there's an amazing podcast series
[25:41] Speaker 2: called The Real Me and that's all about how it's
[25:45] Speaker 2: telling young people's stories at the same time as talking
[25:49] Speaker 2: about the music that they've created and listening to it.
[25:52] Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.

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