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Did Any Of Rock's Long-Standing Icons Not Make A Poor Aesthetic Choice During The '80s? [What Price Dignity]
Posted on August 14, 2008
My post on James Brown's Living In America reminded me of a sorta-sketched-out theory I have about the evolution, and devolution, of recent years' musical landscape: There are few musical icons from the glory days of rock and pop who didn't make at least one indescribably awful career choice during the 1980s. (Some of the artists haven't even recovered yet.) Evidence for this theory after the jump, along with one striking exception who leads me to believe that the product of an idle mind forced to hear one too many Rod Stewart covers while waiting on line in Walgreens might actually be fact....
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