Started my senior year in high school that year. Worked at McDonald's and drank beer with the manager after work each night; the local cop stopped by and kept us company while we drank! Favorite groups at that time: REO Speedwagon, Blue Oyster Cult, Todd Rundgren/Utopia, and Kansas.
You forgot Journey! Guns and Roses?
For me, back then it was pre-Michael McDonald Doobie Brothers, and don't laugh, the Little River Band.