As Dads has got older, people have bought him commemorative gifts, like the front page of The Times the day he was born, or hit records from the year he was born. All great and everything, but I've always assumed they meant little to him. Because they would mean little to me.
I don't remember 1972.
1982, yes.
1988 when I was 16 - FSM yes!
1990 when I was 18 - dunno, remind me
So it seems a great plan to me.
Choose the ones that lasted. Number ones come and go, but you get memorable songs that barely even made it into the Top Ten but are remembered years later.
It's like Oscars.
How many did The Goonies get, Pretty in Pink, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ghostbusters?
But they defined my childhood/ teen years.