re: #1 Charmingly Persistent

My sister was totally into Beatlemania but lost interest in them when they went psychedelic and long haired. So I sort of lost track of them until I was a teenager.

To me (born in 1959) the 60’s was already a mythical lost era when I “discovered” it: most of the major defining bands of the era were split up or in retirement, coming out occasionally with a project to help finance their drug habits and generally disappointing.

We were into prog-rock, then I discovered people who got me into Miles Davis and progressive jazz rock, which led me into post-bop jazz.