Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music?


So I came across this interview today and it dates back to 2011. Prince felt the 60s-80s were the golden ages of music when artists played their instruments, wrote their own songs and actually had to perform (those were his reasons).

I posted it and if you watch from 7:40 you’ll see what I mean.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mcgvcqVHJC0

What do you all think?
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"I think it was the Beatles press officer Derek Taylor who once said that June 1st 1967, the release of Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club, may well have the high water mark of not only popular music, but western civilization itself."

Absurdly O.T.T. statement but what else would you expect, coming from a P. R. guy? 

S. Pepper's has got to be one of the most overrated albums in history, in terms of the quality of the actual songs.  


'Rubber Soul is a much better album, as is Revolver and the s/t white album. As are The Band's first (1968) and second (1969) albums, but you already know that. ;-)"

YES!  
"But I really feel that different minds crave repetitive music or familiar vs. more complex or perhaps unfamiliar music"

Yes. . . 

"We are the oddballs of society that place a massive premium on making music the focus, not just a narration for our activities. I believe the audiophile brain has its reward system more wired into the auditory center than most, hence our musical appetite will tend to be broader than most.".

Richard Thompson dubbed the US a "culture-free zone". 
I really wish the moderators would simply remove any and all political references, here.