I know it happens all the time, but it's still weird to read events that were an integral part of my youth being written about in an explanatory way for a generation that hardly remembers groups like Nirvana let alone acts from (gulp!) 50-plus years ago.
/In this generation In this loving time In this generation We will make the world to shine...
Indeed it is weird, Deb. What young people don't understand (I didn't, either, when I was young) is that 1969 really does seem like only yesterday to me.
One of the cable channels - I think MTV - started rerunning the Monkees in the late 80s, and that's when I became a fan. Same way I learned about Monty Python and The Young Ones.
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I don't remember the Monkees myself, but my grandparents were fans when they were kids & they told me all about them.
Ho ho ho.
I know it happens all the time, but it's still weird to read events that were an integral part of my youth being written about in an explanatory way for a generation that hardly remembers groups like Nirvana let alone acts from (gulp!) 50-plus years ago.
/In this generation
In this loving time
In this generation
We will make the world to shine...
Indeed it is weird, Deb. What young people don't understand (I didn't, either, when I was young) is that 1969 really does seem like only yesterday to me.
Sometimes I catch myself saying "a few years ago" about something that happened 15 or even 20 years ago. And I'm only 51.
Btw, The Monkees revival started already in 1974. Kids these days know about Robert Wyatt, right? Please don't tell me otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ivg0cDBgo
Weird fact: the b-side of Wyatt's single was a song later recorded by Whitney Houston. But I leave the explanation as an exercise to the reader.
One of the cable channels - I think MTV - started rerunning the Monkees in the late 80s, and that's when I became a fan. Same way I learned about Monty Python and The Young Ones.
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