Long term music life: 1981 we moved to Portugal and my parents had a tape of Elvis and I loved him. There was also a tape with Icelandic folk songs. A friend of my sisters gave me a tape copy of Bruce Springsteen‘s Born in the USA and Live/1975–85. Back to Switzerland somewhere around 1987, then off to Thailand in 1991. Before we left we bought a CD player and I remember a disc or two of Vangelis and The Cure‘s Desintegration. Back in Switzerland in 1991 I remember getting into U2 with Achtung Baby and Zooropa, as well as discovering The Doors. My interest in Arab music came via Transglobal Underground with singer Natacha Atlas. My wife started oriental dancing around that time and we had a gazillion CDs with music from Morocco to Turkey as she started teaching. We listened to a lot of Salsa and Bachata while we went Latin dancing nearly every week. I remember discovering Tom Waits. Not sure how. Perhaps via that one track he recorded with Bruce Springsteen? Many years later a coworker introduced me to Gaslight Anthem who had a lot of Bruce Springsteen quotes in the album I listened to. Still listening to them, now. Plus a lot of others that came and went. But I guess that’s my random walk through music history.
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