Id doesn't seem very sensible or fair to berate youngsters for not knowing all the music of past decades etc. Heck the early 60s were 50 years ago! I suspect many of the folk who attended the Cavern to watch the Beatles would have had limited knowledge of what music was around in 1912 etc. I've got a 16 year old son who is really into music and a hell of a good guitarist and it is great watching him discover things even if some of it is stuff most people over 30 or 40 would know pretty well. Once he wants to listen to something he has all the facility to delve into it though. If he wants to listen to what an artist is like then he can log on to the on-line music service we subscibe too and the likelyhood is that many of the said artist's albums are there to download free of charge to him at the press of a button! Plus he can browse youtube to see what the artist is like. Let's get real these are brilliant facilities that we all would have lapped up. I had a 36 mile round trip to our nearest record shop and often came back with an album (which I'd spent a sizeable chunk of my teenage income on) which turned out to be not so great as I'd expected it to be!