Want to feel old?
Generation X the book is 20 years old - reading it yesterday on the tube it might have been from the Great Depression. Hard to remember a young adulthood without the social networking of now. MTV is now a dinosaur, of course, turning 30 yesterday. Music Videos are on YouTube. Not the Telly. But When I was 15, at the dawn of MTV, it was great to be alive, and to see songs acted out so wildly and imaginatively. My favourite - the quintessential MTV video - with all the silly excess that entails is
Animotion's 'Obsession'. 'Flesh For Fantasy', 'Relax', 'Like A Virgin', 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World', 'Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), 'Addicted To Love', 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me', 'Maneater', 'With or Without You', 'I Get Weak', 'Electric Avenue', 'C'est La Vie', and 'Take My Breath Away' are some of the other greats. How to celebrate? Spill some red wine in a dove-filled loft in slow motion.
