If you can remember a time before the interweb then you’ll remember a time when your musical tastes where quite limited to what you heard on TV, radio and your immediate network. One of the advantages of having older siblings, or friends with eclectic tastes in music, was that it enabled you to break out of that circle and discover more. At a time when I should have been listening to Stock, Aitken & Waterman, my friends were turning me onto blues (Muddy Waters, Cream), prog rock (Rush), early 80s electro (Depeche Mode) and one particular heavy metal band – Iron Maiden.
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