From Madonna to Nina Simone: lockdown taught me how to really listen to music

For a few months, Brigid Delaney devoted each weekday to one artist only - exploring their full back-catalogue, and making some discoveries

All the jigsaws, craft projects and home-based hobbies of lockdown are now gathering dust, forgotten; a product of a cursed time that we don't want to think about again.

But there was one pandemic pastime that I was really fond of, and hope to continue through: listening to music. Like properly, deeply listening to it.