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Was 1977 the peak year for music?

I recently took part in a Twitter poll to vote for the best 5 albums of 1977. (Quick plug: these polls are run fortnightly for different years by Richard Shaw – @RichardS7370 – and are both fun and sometimes educational). Beyond the explosion of punk – which felt like a defining moment even at theContinue reading “Was 1977 the peak year for music?”

When did ageing rockers become cool?

It was once a trope of rock n roll that ageing pop stars should have called it a day long before they started to go grey, lose their voice and run out of ideas. Pop music, after all, pretty much invented the generation gap in the latter half of the 20th century. From outrage atElvis’sContinue reading “When did ageing rockers become cool?”