Decade(nce)
Of course, it's not really a "new" decade if you're counting one decade after another starting from 1 CE. On the other hand, a decade is just a span of ten years; the time from June 23 1986 to June 22 1996 is a decade
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I like to think of Fifties as having lasted until around 1964 -- i.e., until The Beatles, as you mentioned. PJ O'Rourke has said that to him the Sixties didn't end until around 1975. Certainly I feel that the Eighties had a hangover into the early 1990s (frizzy hair and synthesizers did not go away overnight), but the transition from the 1970s to the 1980s is an interesting one: already, by the the close of the 1970s, disco was being reviled and "new wave" was coming in. So perhaps the Eighties started a little ahead of schedule?
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