The 80s were horrifying but like New Year's Eve fireworks it came in with a promising bang.
AC/DC's Back in Black album - 1980
However in the same year, Air Supply released, I'm All Out of Love. Soon the rightious wails of Bruce Dickinson were being weakened by the noxious hair spray of Debbie Gibson.
I'm pretty sure the ongoing war between once classic metal and over commercialized pop became the inspiration for George Lucas's Dark Side/Light side storyline.
In the end, glam rock killed both sides and there was no winner. In it's wake of gender confused makeup mayhem and purposely destroyed jeans, it sucked what little life was left in the creative music industry that was not already destroyed by over-commercialized pop.
I'll admit I was sucked in by a lot of the above. Somewhere, where none of you will ever find it!!!! is a photo (on paper that shall never be digitized) of me and my buddies at the age of 16 or so participating in a lip sych contest performing "Nothin but a Good Time" by "Poison".
