Every Thursday this year we're celebrating All Songs Considered's 15th birthday with personal memories and highlights from the show's decade and a half online and on the air. If you have a story about the show you'd like to share, drop us an email: allsongs@npr.org.
This week's Throwback Thursday is offered without comment, and just enough context to help us make our point:
Here, cast your eyes upon budding "rock star" Robin Hilton on a high school band tour in Kansas in 1985 (left)/the All Songs Considered cohost as he looks today (right).
And here, Bob Boilen plays drums in a Velvet Underground cover band called The National Velvets, at Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club during the summer of 1980 (left)/Bob Boilen today (right).
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