Music therapy could help manage the pain of bereavement

Grief has always inspired songwriters. Popular songs including Let Me Go, by Gary Barlow, Eric Clapton’s Tears in Heaven and The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics, were all written as a way of working through the grief of losing a loved one. Tears in Heaven deals with the sudden loss of Clapton’s four-year-old son. The Living Years addresses the songwriters’ mutual regrets over disagreements with their fathers while they were alive. The songs are as poignant and heartrending as you might expect from something written about close family bereavement. Barlow’s Let Me Go, however, is a remarkably upbeat and joyful record, written ......

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