![]() ![]() The children of the baby boom were coming into their late twenties and thirties-young enough to still be serious music consumers, but old enough to have their own generation of children who were starting to buy music.Īnd then there was the music itself. Analog recording technology was at its zenith, FM radio was ascendant, and the AM dial still focused on music. Home stereos were a standard part of middle-class culture. Labels were flush with cash, sales of LPs and singles were brisk, and record stores were everywhere. As the used vinyl bins of the world are still telling us, records were the thing. ![]() There were, of course, fewer kinds of media competing for the average consumer’s time-television meant just a handful of channels, video games were the size of refrigerators and could be found in arcades. The 1970s was arguably the single decade of the 20th century when recorded music was most central to culture.
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