But if the past 10 years haven’t exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction. In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own.
