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Category: Music
The eighties were grey uninspiring years. Thatcher and Regan's economic rationalism reduced the concept of society to merely an economy.
Popular music reflected those drab uninteresting years. The rise of digital technology brought MIDI and the resultant synthesizer/drum machine excesses. "The guitar was dead!" the proponents of this music proudly proclaimed.
And it had distinct advantages in the eyes of the recording industry moguls. Backings could be pre-programmed and the "stars" would merely sing over them. Digital technology in the studio meant those "stars" voices could be manipulated at the mixing desk. Now they no longer needed ANY talent - just a look.
Probably the only bright spark in this period was the development of the multi-track cassette machine. Now for the first time "bedroom" artists could record their own compositions cheaply.
Within 10 years the home computer industry would make digital technology cheap and available to those same musicians - the "Indies".
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