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I love this discussion. Much the same thing happened when disco dried up at the very end of the '70s. Then for the next 2-3 years nothing really dominated. True, you did have new wave infiltrating the charts (Blondie, the Clash, etc.), some country crossovers (e.g., Eddie Rabbitt, Dolly Parton), and Billy Joel was still red-hot, but during 1980-81 there were an awful lot of bland lite rock ballads, and many of the biggest pop stars were people who were already very well established--Paul, Stevie, Diana, Kenny, Barbra, Donna. Pop music was really at a low point then, hitting rock-bottom when John Lennon was assassinated. Is there a name for that period between the end of disco and the start of the MTV era? For want of a better term I always refer to it as "the lull." I'm curious if DJs have their own expression for it. But maybe it's a stretch to expect that. Jeff
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Posted By: Jeffrey Mitchell on: 02/18/2005 12:53:57 EST