Music back in the day

In the Sunday paper comics they had a bio on Simon Le bon, the lead singer for the group DURAN DURAN. When I was about Katherine's age (11 almost 12) I fell in love with the band DURAN DURAN. I hadn't listened much to certain groups, just whatever was on the radio. My friend Debbie that lived 2 doors down liked them first. She had an older brother named Billy who liked FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. At least I think he liked them, or maybe he just continually liked to make fun of them... Anyway, Debbie would get TEEN BEAT magazine and we would look through it searching for their pictures. I remember that was when MTV was new and we would watch their video...

HER NAME IS RIO AND SHE DON'T NEED TO UNDERSTAND
AND I MIGHT FIND HER IF I'M LOOKING LIKE I CAN
OH RIO RIO HERE THEM SHOUT ACROSS THE LAND
FROM MOUNTAINS IN THE NORTH DOWN TO THE RIO GRANDE

It was a cool video with a tropical locale that had beautiful crystal clear water. I was in LOVE with John Taylor. He was SOOO cute. Debbie liked him too. Some girls would lie and say they liked some of the other members. The others were okay, but the only reason I figured anyone would like anyone other than John would be they thought they would increase their odds of getting with someone in band that was less liked. I still remember all their names... Simon Le bon, Nick Rhodes, Roger Taylor, Andy Taylor and JOHN Taylor. No, they were not brothers...As I got older I had other friends who were also as addicted, and one that had gone off the deep end. Her name was Michelle and she had it bad. She owned every record and TAPE (BOTH) that they came out with. She had covered every square inch of her ENTIRE room, ceiling included, with stuff she had cut out of magazines about them. Her blue jean jacket was covered with round pins of them and I attend a party she threw once for "Roger Taylor's" birthday. We all sang happy birthday to him and then had a food fight with the cake!
As I got older, I liked other groups. I went through a phase of liking KISS and nearly had a melt down when my mother refused to let me attend one of their concerts. I liked all sorts of music like, "YOU DROPPED A BOMB ON ME & ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST". I remember my friend Christi turning me on to rap in the late 80's. AND IT WAS RIGHT AFTER A DURAN DURAN CONCERT! Yes, can you believe I got to go! Andy and Roger had quit, but HEY it was all about JOHN! It was 1987 and I could finally drive. Didn't really listen to DURAN DURAN anymore but to see them LIVE- well I wouldn't have missed that for the world! Christi and I went and met our friend Shannon there. They said no camera's at the front gate but I just took mine and stuffed it in my pants anyway (WHAT- me be without my camera?). Shannon saw someone who was on the staff there working the front and he was going to motion to us when DURAN DURAN was going to come out so we would have a running start to the front stage. We talked a bit to loud about this, so like 10 girls around us knew this info too. As soon as he motioned to us and we started to stand, so did the other girls. We almost knocked each other down to get to the front of the stage. I was only one person back from being by the front. The crowd danced to the music although it was REALLY TIGHT. All those lights started to take a toll on me till I couldn't take anymore. I do believe that if John had promised to come down French-kiss me in front of all those girls if I stayed I would have given him my regrets. I was so hot and sweaty that I felt close to passing out. I crawled across all those screaming girls and made it to the bathroom. My hair was like if I had taken a shower. I found Christi and we went and sat on the hill (it was an ampi-theater) and watched the rest. I got some pictures and every time the security saw the flash go off they would come looking up the aisle to see were it was coming from, but I would take the picture and then stick the camera back down my pants and start dancing so I looked GOOD & INNOCENT when they came alookin'. When we left the concert we went through the drive-thru at McDonald's and saw some guys from school. We drove around for a bit and listened to the radio. Christi changed it to a different station and I heard ....

WHEN I'M ALONE IN MY ROOM SOMETIMES I STARE AT THE WALL AND IN THE BACK OF MIND I HEAR MY CONSCIENCE CALL TELLING ME I NEED A GIRL WHOSE AS SWEET AS A DOVE- FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE- I SEE I NEED LOVE... This was by LL Cool J so I don't remember listening to Duran Duran much after that...

POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME! - Def Leopard
MATERIAL GIRL- Madonna
IS THIS LOVE?_ White Snake

Does this music take you back? I can spend an hour on itunes listening to this stuff. I need to stop it because if I don't, Katherine and Matthew's friends will look at them weird for listenening to OLD MUSIC. They know hardly anything about today's music like they do my old music.

Oh, wait a second... gotta go. Kat is trying to watch GREASE and Matt's turned the stereo up way to loud while he dances to THRILLER. He wouldn't turn it up so loud though if Gabriel wasn't singing RAPPER'S DELIGHT...

Master Gee, it's on you, so whatcha' gonna do?