The 1980s were a kind of rebirth of pop music, as powerful in its own way as what happened in the 1960s. The songs of the 80s became more complex, more meaningful, than the pop crap of disco that polluted the 1970s. People were sick of the glitter and the platform shoes. They adopted short hair, simple clothing styles. The girls wore long dresses that evoked the style of the early 1960s. The boys were clean-cut. You also had the creeping emergence of faggotry in the form of Boy George and Michael Jackson, but it was an undercurrent. You didn't see that in Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel or Sting, in Huey Lewis or Dire Straits. It was also a time of resurgence for older musicians who had started in the 1960s, and who got their second wind in the 1980s. The Rolling Stones did some great work in the 80s. So did Paul McCartney and George Harrison. Santana made a comeback (not that he ever really went away). I listen to what passes for pop music today and I just shake my head.