and so I know some odd things:
- that Elton John was bald
- that Abba was/were crap
- that punk meant an end to manufactured bands and corporate rock
- that flares were a bad idea
- that Richard Branson was a cool iconoclastic maverick
- that only diehard hippies would use the word 'cool' unironically
- that George Lucas made good films
To quote a Brinsley Schwarz song of the time:
"It's been so long since them days, And time makes its changes in so many ways"
(Nick Lowe, "Nervous on the road")
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I remember when George Lucas made good films.
But they still had bad dialogue.
It seems endemic- maybe that's because in Hollywood writers are seen as barely-necessary evils. Did you hear about the would-be starlet who was so naive she slept with the writer? Although I must admit that when I checked some of the clunkiest lines in Lord of the Rings, I found that they were Tolkein's fault.
And the whole era was kickstarted by Michael Jackson, pre nose job, singing a love song to a king rat for the movie Ben.
I could have said that I can remember when Michael Jackson was black!
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