“We live in an age where hope and optimism are hard to come by. We’ve been here before, of course. Though the 1980s has benefitted from a rebrand in the last few years, mass unemployment and a generalised sense of cultural decline made it a pretty grim time to be young. The music was distinctly bleak, too, even if it tried to convince you otherwise. Pantera, Status Quo, White Snake, Bananarama. Honestly, it’s enough to make you wonder if hard times and crap music have always walked hand in hand.”
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