I hated it!
Those of us who rocked through the seventies with Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Led Zeppelin, etc, saw the end of that decade with few of our favourite bands still together.
Of those bands that survived, many chose to abandon the seventies look as they embraced eighties fashions:
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Out went the waist-length long hair to be replaced by much shorter mullets. No more denim, leather and platform boots as they opted for trainers and Miami Vice style suits with the sleeves rolled up.
The changes in fashion seemed to affect the music and the hard rock strayed into AOR/MOR territory.
And that, as they say, was that.
