The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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Too good post App The way you kindle everyone's memories and invite everyone to post is one of the most unique quality of your posts.
Yes, till 1986, as far as western music is concerned, I had only listened to MJ, Boney M, ABBA, Wham! and Tina Turner (apart from the ones our Maestro introduced). I was thinking MJ was the only superstar of western pop/rock music (ofcourse still he is), but I was blind and could not ready to accept any other songs as that great. My friends at my college introduced me to whole new world, especially in 1987 from there I did not look back. When I was sure MJ would win Grammy for his Bad in 1987, there came a big surprise from U2 in the form of Joshua Tree. When we were watching the Grammy could not believe U2 grabbed that. To be honest, didn't like them at all at that time, but that was one cracker of an album. which goes with me everytime. Sameway, I got introduced to so many artists, right fom Megadeath, Europe, Dan Seals to Houston to Tracy Chapman and the list goes on. But once I get back to our Maestro, it will again take months to go back to them. Thanks for your wonderful post about Paul Mauriat which made me write this.

I don't remember these numbers now, will have to listen to it in the evening.

PS: Sorry to say this, Another bad thing is the amount of exposure I got into the contemporary western music (all kinds). It is so huge that if any indian song does the same/similar tune, singing or arrangement, immediately it is disqualified for next listen from me, as I find nothing new and I have a feeling that I have heard these kind of songs many times before. Just singing in indian lyrics won't help for me, if it was a pure pop/rock song. That's a bad habit, but I cannot help it.