In her new book, music writer Kate Mossman looks back at her favourite type of encounter – interviews with charismatic, ageing, male rockers. Here she remembers the band – and specifically drummer – who electrified her as a girl growing up in NorfolkI am of a generation that had no name: we slipped down the crack between the spotty cheek of gen X and the well-moisturised buttock of the millennials. We are the last generation that will wow our grandchildren by explaining that we came of age completely without the internet. We wrote letters through secondary school; we replaced these with email when we got to university and wrote 15,000-word screeds to one another, which we still keep in files in our Hotmail accounts. Some of us ended up internet dating, but I have far more friends who settled down with their first or second love. We are neurotic, and depressive, but we didn’t know it until recently.The thing we do share with those who came after is that when it comes to music, we and...
In a Guardian article, music writer Kate Mossman reflects on her teenage fascination with Queen, specifically Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, and how their music resonated with her generation growing up in the 1990s, a generation without a clear label and experiencing a unique technological shift. She also reflects on how music was a shared experience, soundtracking childhoods and family trips, and defying the typical narrative of teenagers wanting to listen to music their parents disliked.
