There was a distinct feeling that 'nothing was true' anymore and that the future was not as clear-cut as it had seemed. Nor, for that matter, was the past.
Therefore, everything was up for grabs. If we needed any truths we could construct them ourselves. The main platform would be, other than shoes, We are the future, now.' And the one way of celebrating that was to create it by the only means at our disposal.
With, of course, a rock'n'roll band. DAVID BOWIE