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"Mind you, I was lucky: I lived through a time when it was great to read. There were so many books that you just had to read, which would have been read by everyone you knew. Not merely read, though, but digested and discussed. We formed not merely our opinions but ourselves on them. There was a common culture – or, more accurately, a common counter-culture – which included music, art and film. If there was some faddishness in this, and a concomitant homogenisation of taste, there was the palpable upside of having plenty of people with whom to share one's enthusiasms. (...) as our parents had Gershwin and Cole Porter, we had the Stones and the Beatles, and our children have garage, or hip-hop, or whatever it's called. Yes, all of us could sing When I'm Sixty-Four, or Honky Tonk Women. But what was really uncommon, much more than we would have realised, was that we could all sing from the same books as well."

Rick Gecoski, Finger on Page

Fonte: Guardian UK