Post Prompt #1: "Who was your first favorite group or singer? How old were you at the time? What was important to you about this music?"
A tough question for sure!
The "top 40" stations back in the day were Z95 and B96 (Yes, the same B96!). These were the days I attempted to "Walk Like an Egyptian" and felt BAD when I moonwalked like Michael Jackson. My first favorite group, Def Leppard, was a big deal during the mid-late 80's. Def Leppard grew out of the late 70s English rock scene, ultimately becoming so huge that they're one of only three groups to have ever charted 7 songs on one album (Hysteria). In the late 80s, the Bears were huge, Wrestlemania was headlined by Hulk Hogan and Randy "Macho Man" Savage, and a UK import band with a one-armed drummer battled Michael Jackson for supremacy of the charts. Groups like Def Leppard represented a sort of introduction to the adult world for an impressionable 12 or 13 year old. The fact that my parents hated this music made it all the more enticing. For the video clip, I could have chosen a number of songs, including Pour Some Sugar on Me, Photograph, or really anything from their hit albums Pyromania and Hysteria, but I chose the ballad Love Bites; arguably their biggest hit. I await your comments... Enjoy!
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This is going to date me, but it has to be the prog-rock band, Genesis. That's right: Phil Collins' band before Phil was bald and doing soundtracks for Tarzan!
I liked them because I was taking piano lessons at the time and wanted to hear something keyboard-related that wasn't classical; something COOL. Plus, they seemed deeper than other bands on FM radio at the time. Heck, some of their songs lasted more than 20 minutes!
My first purchase was Genesis' album (vinyl), "ABACAB" which was an abbreviation for the rhyme structure of one of their songs (I think!)
Thanks, Hjelms, for a great walk down memory lane!
Hjelmgren... can you honestly do the moonwalk?!
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