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My father s dementia led to a hit record and a million pounds for charity
A new charity fund named in honour of dementia patient Paul Harvey will help many others to use music to cope with their condition
3 March 2021 • 3:00pm
Paul Harvey, pictured, and his son Nick, raised over £1 million for charity with Four Notes - Paul s Tune
Credit: Nick Harvey
On Friday 17 September last year, Nick Harvey and his father Paul, a former composer and music teacher, sat down at the piano.
It had been a hard day for Paul, 81, who has dementia, and Nick, in hopes of raising his father s spirits, remembered an old family party trick , in which he would improvise a two-minute piece of music made from just four notes of another person s choosing.