As I previously mentioned, I started creating lists of my favorite songs of the year in 1978. I’m not sure what made me compile that first list. Perhaps it was my own frustrations with the Billboard charts at the time or more likely I felt a need to categorize – it kept me safe and sane.
Just three years earlier my family had moved out of our house on …
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