In an extract from a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the first message sent over the internet, Taylor explains why the likes of Twitter and YouTube may harm future pop and rock stars. The internet may have been a miracle for music fans, John Taylor said, but instant access to decades of recordings and artists' inner thoughts is not all good. I hated being a teenager, until I discovered just how powerful the world of popular music was. It helped me find an identity and find myself. Not just the notes and beats, but the icons and the haircuts and the clothes and the liner notes. Music saved me in a way, or at least it gave me a sense of direction of how life could be. I became a teenager in 1972. In 1972, I was listening to music that was almost exclusively made in 1972. Some of it ha