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30-year reunion

1998

Generation

Gen X

You'd be about

Middle School

1961–1963

Awkward dances and your first favorite band.

Tossin' and Turnin'

Bobby Lewis

1961

Stranger On the Shore

Acker Bilk

1962

Surfin' U.S.A.

The Beach Boys

1963

I Fall To Pieces (feat. The Jordanaires)

Patsy Cline

1961

I Can't Stop Loving You

Ray Charles

1962

The End of the World

Skeeter Davis

1963

Michael

The Highwaymen

1961

Mashed Potato Time

Dee Dee Sharp

1962

Rhythm of the Rain (LP Version)

The Cascades

1963

Crying

Roy Orbison

1961

Roses Are Red (My Love)

Bobby Vinton

1962

He's So Fine

The Chiffons

1963

High School

1964–1968

The lunch table, the hallway crush, the parking lot.

I Want to Hold Your Hand

The Beatles

1964

Wooly Bully (Re-Recorded)

Pharaohs & Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

1965

California Dreamin'

The Mamas & the Papas

1965

To Sir With Love

Lulu

1967

Hey Jude

The Beatles

1968

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)

Four Tops

1965

96 Tears

? and The Mysterians

1966

The Letter

The Box Tops

1967

Love Is Blue

Paul Mauriat

1968

Hello, Dolly!

Louis Armstrong

1964

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The Rolling Stones

1965

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Jimmy Ruffin

1966

First Car

1966–1968

Windows down, volume up, finally free.

California Dreamin'

The Mamas & the Papas

1965

To Sir With Love

Lulu

1967

Hey Jude

The Beatles

1968

96 Tears

? and The Mysterians

1966

The Letter

The Box Tops

1967

Love Is Blue

Paul Mauriat

1968

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Jimmy Ruffin

1966

Ode to Billie Joe

Bobbie Gentry

1967

Honey

Bobby Goldsboro

1968

Last Train to Clarksville

The Monkees

1966

Windy

The Association

1967

(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay

Otis Redding

1964

College Years

1968–1972

Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.

Hey Jude

The Beatles

1968

Sugar, Sugar

The Archies

1969

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

1970

Joy to the World

Three Dog Night

1971

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Roberta Flack

1972

Love Is Blue

Paul Mauriat

1968

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

The 5th Dimension

1969

(They Long To Be) Close To You (Live At Féile, Tipperary, Ireland / 1994)

The Cranberries

1970

Maggie May

Rod Stewart

1971

Alone Again (Naturally)

Gilbert O'Sullivan

1972

Honey

Bobby Goldsboro

1968

I Can't Get Next to You

The Temptations

1969

Early Adulthood

1973–1977

First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.

Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

Dawn

1973

The Way We Were

Barbra Streisand

1974

Love Will Keep Us Together

Captain & Tennille

1975

Silly Love Songs

Wings

1976

Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)

Rod Stewart

1977

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Live)

Jim Croce

1973

Seasons in the Sun

Terry Jacks

1974

Rhinestone Cowboy

Glen Campbell

1975

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Elton John & Kiki Dee

1976

I Just Want To Be Your Everything

Andy Gibb

1977

Killing Me Softly With His Song

Roberta Flack

1973

Love's Theme

The Love Unlimited Orchestra

1974

The world when you walked the stage

At the Movies2001: A Space Odyssey

Night of the Living Dead

Planet of the Apes

On TV60 Minutes premieres

Hawaii Five-O

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

In the HeadlinesMLK and RFK assassinated

Apollo 8 orbits the Moon

The first 911 call

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