When I first got into music aged 12 in 1971,
I somehow developed an equally keen enthusiasm for contemporary rock and folk,
and 1960s pop and rock...

But at that time, even though the 60s music was still not that old,
most of it had passed out of circulation, even been deleted..

Unless you had older siblings and their record collection,
which i didn't,
it was extremely difficult even knowing what 60s music had ever existed.

All we had were the biggest 3 or 4 1960s bands still stocked in local record shops,
or occasional greatest hits LPs slipping out at xmas...

So thank the music gods for Record Collector mag many years later,
and then the internet...

My personal biased old blokey opinion is that
very little music since the golden era of mid 50s to early 80s
is worth bothering with...