About two years after his diagnosis, he began to listen at full volume to a popular Italian pop music band. Formerly a classical music listener, he had once referred to pop music as "mere noise".
There are several theories as to why this is so; some conjecture that some forms of dementia cause an attraction to novelty, by increasing the dominance of the right frontal lobe over the left; others that dementia and certain forms of brain damage can bring out previously latent artistic inclinations.
(I wonder what Tanya would make of this...)