Streams are made of this: will digital platforms change our musical memories?

‘At his age, I had to hang around the radio for hours or wait until Top of the Pops every Thursday’: Jude Rogers and her son. Photograph: Gareth Iwan Jones/The Observer

The second we get in the car, my son strikes up his familiar tune. “I want my playlist, Mum!” Put your belt on, young man. “Pleeease?” Some politeness for a change. Belt. Now.

I get a second’s sweet peace as I hear the clunk-click. Then the noise: “Mum! I need my playlist right now!”