POP MUSIC IS BETTER THAN EVER!
Sep 01, 2018
2 minutes
—Nicholas Gilmore
Growing up, I could never escape Del Shannon’s 1961 hit “Runaway.” On long road trips and commutes to school, the anguished refrain and keyboard solo followed me everywhere. My father, a baby boomer, couldn’t get enough of the song, and he played it compulsively in lieu of the ’90s music on the radio.
Some selective amnesia
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