I listened to a lot of pop radio growing up in Detroit. Both the lilly white and the domestic afro pop stuff. My parents divorced when I was six and the kids of most divorced parents get dragged to all the booring stuff that they would have avoided if the other parent was around to watch them. Hours and hours of riding around in my mom's beige Chevette listening to pop radio. I loved MJ, Prince, Madonna and Cindy Lauper by name. Loved many songs who's artist I didn't know at the time. One of my earliest memories is staring at eye level to my dads glowing amplifier and record player watching "There Goes Rhyming Simon" spin as Codachrome played. I would guess that I was about three years old. Loved that album then, still love it now. I can also remember always wanting my parents to play Al Stewart's album "Year of the Cat" and Cat Stevens album "Tea for the Tillerman." I really liked Stevie Wonders "Songs in the Key of Life." Don't know what's wrong with my kid, she mostly wants to hear Frankie Valley.