Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Some years ago, I had a conversation with Don Letts, the DJ, filmmaker, and confidant of

The Clash, and he said something that really stuck with me.

The average lifespan of a band is seven years. That's enough for them to

form, get big, become stars,

develop creative differences, and then

break up. And you know

he's not wrong. I mean, the clash

did their best work from 76 to 83.

The Beatles from 63

to 70. Nirvana was around

from 87 to 94.

But then there are the exceptions, groups that have survived multiple seven-year cycles.

U-2, the Stones, Oasis, Green Day, Foo Fighters.

And if we're going to make that kind of a list, we must also include Blink 182.

This is a band that had a big rise and then a big fall before clawing back again.

This kind of roller coaster career could be really hard on a band and there are often casualties.

And you'll see what I mean as we get into part three of the rise and fall and rise of Blink 182.

This is the ongoing history of new music,

the podcast edition with Alan Cross.

Dearhead, shut up, I can't listen no more.

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