I was 20 years old in 1978 workin a summer job as a camp counselor. Two of my 8 year old campers got into a fight. After intervening I asked what it was about and one exclaimed that the other was insisting that Paul McCartney was in in a band before Wings. That was the first glimmer of my impending Old Fartdom.
Every generation should have their own music as part of their identity. I don’t listen to much non classical these days but my general impression is that most innovation in pop music stopped in the eighties or thereabouts. That makes it harder to claim an identity. Nothing wrong with recycling classic rock but it does seem to be a second hand experience…