Dis agree all you like. I'll stick with the government specifics rather than Billy Idol.
You music choices have nothing to do with which era (boomer, x, y, z, millenial, etc) you belong to. I listen to classical and baroque. BTW: 1964.5 and on are not boomers. It all has to do with birth rates as far as boomers go. It ain't called the baby boom fer nuthin'.
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"GENERATION X (1965-1980)
That comment in
The Observer was in reference to a then-recently published
book called
Generation X by Jane Deverson and Charles Hamblett. A few years later, Joan Broad bought a copy at a garage sale, her son found it, and he fell in love with the name.
That son was Billy Idol, and according to his memoir,
Dancing with Myself, “We immediately thought it could be a great name for this new band, since we both felt part of a youth movement bereft of a future, that we were completely misunderstood by and detached from the present social and cultural spectrum. We also felt the name projected the many possibilities that came with presenting our generation’s feelings and thoughts.” The band Generation X would begin Billy Idol’s career.
But the name Generation X wouldn’t become associated with a wide group of people until 1991. That's the year Douglas Coupland’s
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture was released. The book became a sensation for its ability to capture early '90s culture and, although it didn’t coin the words, helped popularize a range of terms as diverse as
McJob and
pamphleting—and a name for an entire generation."