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The '70s are so '90's: The '80s are the thing now

Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 May 2002

AND NOW, the '80s. It was probably inevitable. The pop music and fashion industries depend on recycling their own history, and the retro styles of the 1960s and '70s had been strip-mined to the point of exhaustion.

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