To feel sad that so many pop music icons from my generation are dead?

[Appalonia]

I'm 57 and feel so lucky to have been a teenager when there was so much incredible music around. I don't think I appreciated it at the time, because I naively assumed what it az would always be that good, but looking back, I really do. But so many of them are gone now, and many at a relatively young age. Prince, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Ian Dury, George Michael, Rick James, Maurice White, the lead singer of Third World and , recently Aswad, Donna Summer, Barry White, Teena Marie, and so many more. I don't think I feel sad because it reminds me of my own mortality, more that I feel that this era of great music is disappearing and that young people don't know about it and I find a lot of contemporary mainstream music so soulless and corporate and I wish young people could experience the absolute joy of the amazing music I grew up with ?

I agree, music just isn't the same nowadays. I take some heart from 70s/80s artists like Kate Bush having a resurgence.

Yes, it's great that young pp are discovering great artists like Kate Bush through tv shows. I just wish I could find a way to educate them in the amazing music that existed before they were born, as I don't want it to die.

I know exactly what you mean Op
I feel the same way.

So, for exampke, this is a fantastic funk, disco song that still sounds amazing!

I could easily post 50 songs from that era that still sound amazing.