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> Funnily enough I always feel a bit sorry for the

> people who are about ten years older than me a bit

> too young for the proper 60s and the proper hippy

> stuff and then a bit too old for punk :)


Sounds like my oldest brother, while I was pogoing around the bedroom he had to make do with Genesis and 10cc... :)

In reality the 50s/60s/70s/80s/90s were all game changers musically, with plenty of tribalism (whether the music and the "tribes" were good or bad is subjective and basically just depends on how old your are).


Struggling to think what has really changed musically since the 90s. Most of the pop, rock, dance, hip hop, etc music around now would have been right at home 20 years ago.

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Jah Lush Wrote:

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> I was also eight years old at the time. I'd been

> packed off to a relatives for a week because my

> mum was about to give birth to my younger brother

> who was born the day before we won the World Cup

> at Dulwich Hospital.


Attending a 50th birthday bash Saturday for a mate who was not only born on the day of the final but actually during it. His mother reckoned she never saw the same doctor or nurse for more than five minutes as his appearance approached as they were running relays from the T.V. lounge...

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