They say that those able to recall the 1960s never truly experienced it.
For Everton, there is no shortage of memories from their own wonder years which arrived two decades later but, bewilderingly, remained less recounted.
It was a decade that yielded two league championships, one European trophy, an FA Cup and 10 Wembley appearances in the space of five years.
Yet until now, the full story of Howard Kendall’s all-conquering side had stayed largely untold, save for a few oft-repeated tales in after-dinner speeches.
Simon Hart, an esteemed journalist and Evertonian growing up in the 1980s, chose to take up the mantle in detailing one of football’s greatest dynasties.
Goodison Park’s halcyon period may have peaked between 1984 and 1987 but the entire decade remains one which continues to be revered to this day.
‘Here We Go’ – the title of Hart’s book, based on the club’s 1985 FA Cup final single – remains a vibrant sentiment on the Gwladys Street as it was in its heyday.
Such remains its appeal that, in October 2015, many of Kendall’s former stalwarts performed a mass rendition of it following the Everton legend’s funeral.
From Leicester City to Friday night football, Evertonians of a certain vintage can be forgiven for feeling as though they have stepped into a footballing time warp.
Even the high-pressing intensity that the Blues have shown in the formative weeks of Ronald Koeman’s reign will not have come as a great surprise.
Colin Harvey put players through those same high-pressing drills on Bellefield’s hallowed planes long before the Dutchman pitched up at Barcelona.
Leicester’s Premier League title win, fashioned on principles of a balanced squad that worked hard and fought for each other, is also hardly anything new for Peter Reid, whose foreword outlines Everton’s spirit of 1985.
Others in ‘Here We Go’ are similarly forthcoming with the secrets of success that saw Kendall and Harvey foster a winning coaching partnership.
Training on astro turf pitches before notorious trips to QPR and practising with the match balls used at the likes of Liverpool all handed Everton a competitive edge.
Off the pitch, the team’s close-knit bond was forged on the principles of a few drinks at the Conti every Tuesday evening following a ritual Chinese meal.
Not every player embraced the hard-drinking culture, for differing reasons; Neville Southall’s being teetotal and Derek Mountfield’s due to epilepsy.
Further revelations about life after football show how the deep-rooted sense of family has remained with many of Everton’s once ritual silverware collectors.
Mark Higgins, for instance, has made peace with the injury-hit spell which robbed him of being Everton’s most successful captain to become a familiar face again around Goodison as a match day host.
A once elusive Pat van den Hauwe also details his renewed purpose as a prominent figure within Everton in the Community, the club’s charity arm.
Players such as Paul Wilkinson and Kevin Richardson, offer an alternate perspective to those provided by more vaunted stars like Kevin Ratcliffe and Adrian Heath.
The last words, fittingly, belong to Harvey; an Evertonian as boy, man and manager who saw the club out of the ’80s whom Hart, rightly, declares as its greatest living.
There is unlikely to be a more definitive account of Everton’s greatest-ever story, which culminated exactly 30 years ago this season, nor a finer tribute to Kendall’s two-time champions.
‘Here We Go – Everton in the 1980s: The Players’ Stories’ is available now