The early Eighties really were as magical and awesome as you’ve been led to believe, even if the seeds of our future heartaches were being planted in the dark. Me, I was 17 in November of 1983, and it’s remained a lost mystical land I like to escape to when the stars are just right ever since.
I really am so immensely grateful for so many things, but most of all to have been just the right age when youth culture was at its absolute zenith. We were the Kids of America, dammit, when that actually still meant something.
Looking back it stuns me how many all-time classic albums and singles were released that autumn some four decades ago. And with a chill in the air and the leaves falling from the trees, I thought it a good time to revisit that magical time and feel some major wist.
One of the best ways to return to those times is (of course) music, which was everywhere you turned. This was due to the rise of the New British Invasion and MTV, but other sounds were seeping through, like the new New Wave of Heavy Metal.
So in honor of the Stranger Things Quadragennial (more on that later), indulge me while I stroll down Memory Lane yet again...
Mosey on over to the Secret History of Rock blog to read the full article NOW:
https://secrethistoryofrock.blogspot.com/2023/11/oh-what-night-mid-november-back-in.html
And don't forget the classic post on 1983, the Year that Broke Reality: