On 7/13/2011 8:18 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> Except the song was a hit in 1978. Weren't things different by then?
Ooops. Yes they were. The _First_ "Great Recession plus stagflation had ravaged many lives.
That gives sort of an air of nostalgia to the song. I'm no expert on popular music: is there any tendency in it to be a bit backward-looking?
Carrol