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Old 15th October 2019, 11:53   #29
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Originally Posted by wraymond View Post
Too true. Take the popular music industry. How many older people measure their lives by memories of the songs they knew in their teens? And derive great pleasure and nostalgia from it? Those simple school-yard skipping songs were mass marketed to a simplistic youthful audience

The influences stayed with them all their lives and coloured their view of the world. Many of those songs were 'torch' anthems and have become hymns to wasted youth! There are great similarities of method with current influences.
Meat loaf advises, "wasted youth is better by far then a wise and productive old age"

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