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Dusting off yesterday (M&G)

Friday, July 11th, 2008 | Mail & Guardian column, history | No Comments

When you’re a youngster, music has a way of becoming communal. Well, it did when I was a teenager, which is why it didn’t matter that I never owned a tape deck in the Eighties. I had my roving box of tapes and there was always someone with a boom box.

Some of those cassettes were R6,99 blanks picked up at the local stationer, recycled through the shifting music du jour that backlights the changing seasons of capricious adolescence. Their white labels carried wiggly, hand-written artist names: Simon & Garfunkel or Magna Carta, scratched into the Tippex painted over a previous album name; gloomy Depeche Mode jettisoned Alice Cooper; Pink Floyd, the perennial favourite. › Continue reading

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