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30-year reunion

2001

Generation

Gen X

You'd be about

Middle School

1964–1966

Awkward dances and your first favorite band.

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

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

Four Tops

1965

96 Tears

? and The Mysterians

1966

Hello, Dolly!

Louis Armstrong

1964

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

The Rolling Stones

1965

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted

Jimmy Ruffin

1966

Oh, Pretty Woman

Roy Orbison

1964

You Were On My Mind

We Five

1965

Last Train to Clarksville

The Monkees

1966

I Get Around

The Beach Boys

1964

High School

1967–1971

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

To Sir With Love

Lulu

1967

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 Letter

The Box Tops

1967

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

Ode to Billie Joe

Bobbie Gentry

1967

Honey

Bobby Goldsboro

1968

First Car

1969–1971

Windows down, volume up, finally free.

Sugar, Sugar

The Archies

1969

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

1970

Joy to the World

Three Dog Night

1971

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

I Can't Get Next to You

The Temptations

1969

American Woman

The Guess Who

1970

I Feel the Earth Move

Carole King

1971

Honky Tonk Women

The Rolling Stones

1969

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head

B.J. Thomas

1970

One Bad Apple

The Osmonds

1971

College Years

1971–1975

Dorm rooms, road trips, and figuring it out.

Joy to the World

Three Dog Night

1971

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Roberta Flack

1972

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

Maggie May

Rod Stewart

1971

Alone Again (Naturally)

Gilbert O'Sullivan

1972

Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Live)

Jim Croce

1973

Seasons in the Sun

Terry Jacks

1974

Rhinestone Cowboy

Glen Campbell

1975

I Feel the Earth Move

Carole King

1971

American Pie

Don McLean

1971

Early Adulthood

1976–1980

First apartment, first heartbreak, first paycheck.

Silly Love Songs

Wings

1976

Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright)

Rod Stewart

1977

Shadow Dancing

Andy Gibb

1978

My Sharona

The Knack

1979

Call Me

Blondie

1980

Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Elton John & Kiki Dee

1976

I Just Want To Be Your Everything

Andy Gibb

1977

Night Fever

Bee Gees

1977

Bad Girls

Donna Summer

1979

Another Brick In the Wall, Pt. 2

Pink Floyd

1980

Best of My Love

The Emotions

1977

You Light Up My Life

Debby Boone

1978

The world when you walked the stage

At the MoviesA Clockwork Orange

Willy Wonka

Dirty Harry

On TVAll in the Family

Columbo

Soul Train premieres

In the HeadlinesDisney World opens

Intel ships the first microprocessor

Voting age lowered to 18

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