[Viking2002]

Olivia Newton-John a 'rocker'? Mark, you must have your brain stuck on AM Top 40, circa 1979. Throw her in with Captain & Tennille, Air Supply, and a thousand other 'yacht rock' (and I use the term 'rock' as loosely as a public housing brood mare's womb) acts, and there you have the genesis of a merciful decade of classic 80's and early 90's MTV bands who didn't want to make you slit your effing wrists.

Too bad MTV degenerated into an obscure B-list cable outlet that promoted Seattle based, shoe-gazing, flannel-wearing dropouts from society, knocked-up, jailbait LA barrio chicks, and three foot tall elfin sluts. The most culturally significant contribution it's made in the last 25 years is a forgotten pair of animated pubescent dimbulbs. If I wanted this, I'd have stayed married to the gangrenous little broom pilot I married two decades prior. Prophetic in it's way, I suppose.......

[Twotone]

The column is more about the song-writer & singer than the song. He always has interesting tidbits that I find amusing.