Can't exactly recall but could have been my first purchases; a collision of True Colours by Split Enz and The River by Bruce Springsteen or maybe much earlier the "Red and Blue" Beatles collection - think the cover shots 1962 vs 1969 , a young mind could get carried away thinking about how did these guys go from there to there in such a short time? Whatever there was an active music awakening that has been there every since, through performing, practicing, recording (home) selling (retail) and general advocating. Not really publicising or publishing  though ,I  always prefer actions to talking about it - much to my detriment I suspect.

So does music stop for me in 1980? No but there was something about 1978 - 80 which 40 years later (gulp) is starting to look back on as a golden era of popular, recorded music, never to be repeated. Think Punk ,New Wave, Disco, Funk ,Rock. Think Bowie, Costello, Pretenders, Talking Heads, Tom Petty, Fleetwood Mac (Tusk!) Springsteen, solo Beatles (ok well mainly McCartney anyway), The Cars , Television, Blondie,  Roxy Music (phase II). The era will probably be regarded as the time when the British initiated wave of  60's musicians was aging but still active and relevant, mixing with new generations coming on board.

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