Reggie will play the role of Ultimate Ears' first ever "Head of Socio-Musicology" putting his social music theories to the test in a series of hilarious real-world experiments.

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There were demonstrations that allowed you to play music on headphones, test if products were genuine or counterfeit, or that let you replace your car keys or your house keys with just your phone.

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Ayers's father, BBC producer Rowan Ayers, created the BBC Two music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test, which gave a host of underground acts TV exposure while it aired between 1971 - 1987.

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The revised Life in the UK test covers topics as sport, music and history.

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" But like Rothman, he said that NTG represents "what may be the stiffest test Apple Computer has faced in music.

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Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures the same level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play the same pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.

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Older musicians like Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney have stood the test of time, not only for the quality of their music but for their ability to stay at the forefront of the industry.

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Instead, Dr Peretz ran a test in which she compared her subject's emotional reactions to music with those of a control group of women whose temporal lobes were intact.

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There was a Twenty20 international against Australia in 2009 and several leading music acts have played concerts there, but the club are now hopeful that with an updated arena, the biggest Test matches can return to Old Trafford.

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