What do you remember about the 70s?

[Servotech]

One thing came to my mind is that there was hardly ever any back-ground music played in shops back then and if there was it was something like the top poppers sing the hits of the day.
I think it was some copyright law that stopped shops from playing copyrighted music back then.

Another thing is ..............wasn't Sunday a quiet day back then?

All the shops were shut and the town was deserted as were the roads.

 

[TheNed77]

I remember I was taller back then..........platform shoes

 

[adlplumbing]

i was very young born in 1975

 

[Alarm]

Was 6 then.

Concord
747`s
Hendrix died ( Dad was a roady for him and Led Zep)
Can of coke was about 3d iirc decimal came the next I think

 

[moggridgeplumbing]

70's my teenage years. Best years of our lives (Steve Harley!) although we didn't know it at the time. Platform shoes, flares, long hair, brutus shirts, two tone trousers, red socks. Then brush denim and cheesecloth. Great music, lots of strikes. Still playing our music now.

Where did it all go - so quick.

 

[cumbriahandyman]

Mini skirts

 

[Bodgeitandleggit]

oh happy days, t rex, baycity rollers, mud,slade, platforms, baggy trousers, penny rounds, long hot summers, cheap beer and pubs was full ...summer of 76 was one long hot one, 77 olivia newton john. , 78 world cup argentina......just a few memories of that wonderful era... i might be using rose tinted glasses but life seemed so simple then, cars easy to fix, no mobiles, no pc,s, no sky/cable

 

[dreadnoughtheating]

Barry Sheene and James Hunt. And the great smell of Brut.
First Moped, (SS50). Starting work, took home £19.50, a fiver to my mum, and WheyHay "I'm a millionaire - I'll never spend this much in a week!") 1976

5 pints of Adnams, change for the pool table. All for £1

Sid&Nancy.

Losing a luvverly grandma to 40 navycut a day.

DH

 

[moggridgeplumbing]

Also great days of school - teachers could hit you with anything that came to hand- slipper,cane,rope,board rubber and give verbal abuse.

Great days! Cassette players and radio luxenbourg.

 

[cumbriahandyman]

1970's Top Ten Nightclub Tunes
1. Disco Inferno - Trammps
2. Brick House - Commodores
3. Y.M.C.A - Village People
4. September - Earth, Wind and Fire
5. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
6. You're My First, My Last, My Everything - Barry White
7. Last Dance - Donna Summer
8. Flash Light - Parliament
9. Heart of Glass - Blondie
10. Play that Funky Music - Wild Cherry

The Top Ten 70's Songs That Mom and Dad Hated:
1. Tonight's The Night - Rod Stewart
2. Cocaine - Eric Clapton
3. My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry
4. Good Girls Don't - The Knack
5. No No Song - Ringo Starr
6. Wildwood Weed - Jim Srafford
7. I Shot The Sheriff - Eric Clapton
8. One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley
9. Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
10. Lola - Kinks

Top Ten 70's Songs That Everybody Hated:
1. Clap For The Wolfman - Guess Who
2. Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul
3. Run Joey Run - David Geddes
4. Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
5. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
6. Let Her In - John Travolta
7. O-o-h Child - The 5 Stairsteps
8. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
9. Silly Love Songs - Wings
10. Muskrat Love - Captain and Tenille

The Top Ten 70's One Hit Wonders:
1. Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
2. Jamming - Bob Marley
3. All Right Now - Free
4. Hot Child In The City - Nick Gilder
5. Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
6. Pop Muzik - M
7. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
8. Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody
9. Mississippi Queen - Mountain
10. Popcorn - Hot Butter

The Top 20 Rock/Pop Hits of the 1970's That You Need To make Your Collection Complete:
1. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
2. Dancing In The Moonlight - King Harvest
3. Rock On - David Essex
4. You're So Vain - Carly Simon
5. Low Rider - War
6. Signs - Five Man Electrical Band
7. Watching The Detectives - Elvis Costello
8. We Got To Get You A Woman - Todd Rundgren
9. Life is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion
10. Sub Rosa Subway - Klaatu
11. Jazzman - Carole King
12. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
13. Your Mama Don't Dance - Loggins and Messina
14. Sky High - Jigsaw
15. Painted Ladies - Ian Thomas
16. Magic - Pilot
17. Little Willie - the Sweet
18. Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels
19. Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
20. Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan

The Top Ten Preachy Rock Songs of the 1970's!
1. Woman is the N***** of the World - John Lennon
2. Indian Reservation - The Raiders
3. At Seventeen - Janice Ian
4. Imagine - John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band
5. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies
6. War - Edwin Starr
7. Don't Expect Me To Be Your Friend - Lobo
8. Hurricane - Bob Dylan
9. Half-Breed - Cher
10. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake and Palmer

The Top Ten 70s Party Rock Songs:
1. Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Seger
2. Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
3. Some Kind of Wonderful - Grand Funk Railroad
4. Only The Good Die Young - Billy Joel
5. Rock and Roll All Night - Kiss
6. Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
7. Rock and Roll - Led Zeppelin
8. My Sharona - The Knack
9. Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
10. Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver

The Top Ten Fad Songs of the 1970's:
1. The Streak - Ray Stevens
2. Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers
3. Convoy - C.W. McCall
4. Soul Man - Blues Brothers
5. Rubber Duckie - Ernie
6. Disco Duck - Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots
7. King Tut - Steve Martin
8. Short People - Randy Newman
9. I Do The Rock - Tim Curry
10. The Time Warp - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack

The Top Ten Weirdest Songs of the 70s:
1. Angie Baby - Helen Reddy
2. Ma Belle Amie - The Tee Set
3. Ben - Michael Jackson
4. Spill The Wine - Eric Burden and War
5. Hocus Pocus - Focus
6. I Am ... I Said - Neil Diamond
7. Space Oddity - David Bowie
8. Brand New Key - Melanie
9. Rocket Man - Elton John
10. Chick-A-Boom - Daddy Dewdrop

http://www.popculturemadness.com/Entertainment/Decades/70s-Music.html

 

[Inky Pete]

John Player Specials.

Cans of Long Life and Colt 45 lager.

Winning bottles of Pomagne at the school summer fair.

Grand Prix cars with six wheels.

Mastermind (the board game).

 

[Whitespirit66]

The 70s were a great time to grow up. We had much more freedom than kids do today, and seemed to live outside on our bikes on roads that didn't have much traffic.

Also, taking all day to travel from Bristol to Devon for our holidays in dad's Morris Marina 1.3HL. Before motorways, the country seemed much bigger, and we always gagged on the smell from the cellophane works in Bridgewater, as we drove through the town every year on our way South. Town bloody stank!

The best bit.....................being allowed to stay up for the best TV programme ever made.............................

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• Whitespirit66
• 6 May 2008
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[TheNed77]

Pans People

 

[noseall]

Brew 11, Esso blue.

 

[Alarm]

They used to film the Sweeny in and around the streets we lived in! Great fun.