Tracing Social Change Through Rock?

My unofficial "lyrics that best represent the decade they were sung in" is as follows:

"A wop bop-a-lula, a wop bam boom, tutti frutti aw rooty" - Little Richard, 1957
"The times they are a' changing" - Bob Dylan 1964
"God save the Queen & the facist regime" - Sex Pistols 1977
"I want my MTV" - Dire Straits 1985
"You get so mad at me when I go out with my friends" - Hootie & The Blowfish 1995

See a trend here? (hint: narcissism)

Timeless

I first heard Dire Straits wafting into our high school class from the music room downstairs. It was an "ah-ha" moment that prompted a race to Terry Atkinson's classroom to find out what this great music was. We listened to the newly released debut from beginning to end that dreary English day and I was hooked. By the 80's the band had descended into MTV fodder but re-visiting the first album shows how timeless it was.

Rockin' Orchestras

According to the Guardian, certain classical works are too loud for new, stringent EU regulations.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BR) said it had little choice but to drop the world premiere of Swedish-Israeli composer Dror Feiler's Halat Hisar (State of Siege), from a concert because it was "adverse to the health" of its musicians.

Apparently Wagner would be in violation too!