What music did your parent(s) listen to when you were a child?

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Mine listened to a lot of soul, R&B, reggae and Motown. Also ELO.

What music did yours listen to?

Acker Bilk

Beethoven, Mahler, Chopin etc and G&S. My preference was punk, generally referred to by the parents as "that awful racket"!

Things like Eurythymics, Chris Rea, Dire Straights...80s popular music basically!

I'm your Parents... l love motown ..R&B.
Northern soul.
Disco etc.
But music is my passion. I love all kinds.
Alternative 80s.
Rock and pop... start with A for a A flock of seagulls and end in Z for ZZ Top.

My Dad listened to Frank Sinatra he loved him...

Mum: The Carpenters
Dad: The Beatles, Sky and Paul Simon

Always country music 🤠

Radio 2. Occasionally classical. Dad loved country & western.

Connie Francis, Patsy Cline, The Rolling Stones, 60s hits CDs/cassettes, Elvis. I remember the Dirty Dancing soundtrack being played 😂. My mum loves music.

Oh yeah, a lot of Motown too.

Radio 2, and I hated it. Now I listen to it and love it 😂

George Michael (mum).
Welsh choirs and Ivor Emmanuel (dad).

Thanks all. It’s interesting to read everyone’s replies.

I can’t believe that I forgot George Michael as both of my parents were big fans.

My mum has her faults, but her impeccable musical taste definitely isn’t one of them. She loved Queen, the Beatles, Roxy Music, Fleetwood Mac, the Rolling Stones, and, most of all, Bob Marley & the Wailers. The albums Rumours, Exodus & Abbey Road were the soundtrack of my childhood.

As a young woman in the 60s she saw all the legends play live first time round. Lucky her! She still goes to concerts in her 70s, and her views on crappy modern music are unrepeatable. I suppose she’s entitled to think that…

ELO yes :D and Simon & Garfunkel, Dire Straits, Carly Simon, Derek & the Dominoes, Elton John (SO much Elton John - obscure albums on tape in the car) Pink Floyd, Del Amitri, REM, Tears for Fears.

Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells is an odd one - that was played a lot, but it was a record and at some point we didn't have a record player any more, but it was not popular music that I heard on the radio, so apart from maybe the Exorcist theme, I'd not heard any of the songs for years when I unearthed it on Spotify in about 2015, and it gave me absolute chills to listen to it again. Also nobody has ever heard of it (MN will prove me wrong on this I expect!)

Mostly 70s and 80s music I suppose. The music of their teens and twenties. We also used to listen to local radio, the kind of station that would play a mix of "the 70s, 80s and today". (Incidentally I wonder how long they wait before they change the two "old" decades - 15 years? What do they play now? 90s, 00s and today or are we on 00s/10s already?)

I remember my dad getting a phone call just as Back for Good by Take That came on the radio so he turned it up and put the receiver next to the speaker, thinking it was his girlfriend. It was actually his boss

Roy Orbison when mum would come back drunk form the pub.

Mother- alot of Neil Diamon and Barbara Streisand and the soundtrack to musicals like Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar.

father- all classical all the time. Mainly Mendelssohn, Mozart and Haydn.

Classical music; from Bach and Beethoven to Stockhausen and Wagner - the full Ring Cycle etc. This was largely my dad's choice. My mum didn't really get a choice although liked it mostly. This was all over the house at a loud volume. No caring is it was early in the morning at the weekend and we were hungover tired teens.

The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, ELO, Elkie Brooks, Barbra Streisand, Beach Boys, Elton John, ABBA, the Carpenters, loads of 70s disco/funk

Dad would have played The Shadows nonstop if we'd allowed it

I am old.

My dad listened exclusively to classical music but had a fondness for Gilbert and Sullivan too.
Anything popular was designated 'random noise'.
My mum liked classical music too, but also liked folk and protest songs (Joan Baez, Bob Dylan etc., also Mikis Theodorakis).

I ended up loving and knowing classical music, most particularly Brahms, Bach, Sibelius, Grieg, but also diving into the 80s, which was when I was a teenager.

My DC grew up indoctrinated with my 80s music and expanded my musical horizons enormously, so I now like a huge range of things including metal. Go figure.

@BertieBotts I have so many Mike Oldfield albums it isn't even funny.

Kenny Rodger’s, Doris Day, Neil Diamond, Frank Sinatra, Tammy Wynette, Lena Martell, Elaine Paige, Nat King Cole, The Carpenters, Andy Williams and many more

Boys to men
simply red
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gloria estefan
paula abdul

The Stones, Kinks, other 60s music - plus Chas and Dave, Lonnie Donegan, the Fureys, some light classical such as Strauss. Then my dad liked Oasis so we had a bit of that in the car as well.

The light programme (on the radio), when not listening to Radio 4

Otis Redding, Bob Dylan, Haydn, Mozart, Beatles, and Billie Holiday