The 80’s seemed a long way from the 50’s Beat Generation and their ideals of revolution and a new way of living. The ideal world that Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs wrote about was coming seemed to be coming to fruition. The collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 lead to the end of the cold war two years later. Yet the continuing war in Iran and Iraq coupled with the Ethiopian Civil War presented the polar opposite to the peace that existed elsewhere.

During the protest of Vietnam and the civil rights movement, music played an important part in getting the message across and some would say that artists like Dylan, Seger and Baez were instrumental in swaying public opinion. Music had become the medium that the public looked up to for stability and security.

And the 80’s generation needed music to step up again even more than ever.

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