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When I was a young lad in the 80’s, I always used to think old people (say 60+) were a world apart from me. Not the physical age alone, but the way they dressed, what they did, the music they liked and so on.

As I drove to work today though, I nearly burst my ear drums with “Jean Geanie” by Bowie from turning my iPod up in the car and not realising the stereo was at full volume too. I think a few people in France may have heard this as well. I noticed there were some OAP’s by the bus stop   and I thought to myself “I bet they’re tut tut’ing at all this modern music”

Then it crossed my mind that an OAP’s aged 60-70 would have been mid twenties to mid thirties when the song was released. Chances are they heard it when it was first came out. There’s every chance some of these people were rocking to Judas Priest, Hawkwind, Bowie, Sweet etc. in their prime.

There suddenly didn’t seem a big gap between myself and pensioners, like there was when I was a kid.  Someone in their 20’s and 30’s in the1970s and 1980s isn’t that alien to someone in this day and age, at least not like someone in their 20’s in the 1940’s

Perhaps music just seems to last longer these days, or perhaps there isn’t such a huge gap in generations.

Funny old thing, age.