You are in the perfect place with the perfect mindset as the Buddhist teachings tell you to not have regret for the past,nor anxiety for the future but to live in the present and that is what you must learn to do now.
I was a teenager in the eighties the last decade of real music and bands before electronic music and your story reminds me of a song by a little Ginger Scotsman called Jimmy Somerville.
But I’ll let Wee Jimmy tell the story much better than I ever could this truly is an anthem of the incredible eighties and it’s fantastic music,just the opening bars transport me back there as if I’d just stepped onto a Time Machine enjoy :