Day 28: The music you listened to growing up
I'm sure my parents played their classic rock LPs when I was a kid, but that's not really the music I remember growing up. The music I remember was what we heard on the radio---in the car, at the parties my parents threw, in my bedroom while Rose Red and I played with our Barbie dolls. So mostly that was 80s music (Wham!, Toto, Quarterflash, Michael Jackson, Eurythmics, The Police, Tears for Fears, Starship, a-ha, Mr. Mister) with a smattering of soft rock (Lionel Ritchie, Gerry Rafferty, Bruce Hornsby, Rick Astley, James Taylor) thrown in. Those songs never fail to breathe vivid memory into specific moments from my childhood.