![]() 8-track tapes came and were superseded by cassette tapes!ġ. In the early 70s I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg but soon moved over to Radio 1, especially the Sunday Chart Show. I never got to hear The Sex Pistols until many years later. I first noticed the Stranglers on Top of the Pops and thought they were OK. Nothing could really be done as the light was so feeble in the evenings. The power cuts were a drag with everyone huddled around a candle or lamp. I also remember Concorde flying over the school and everyone stopped what they were doing to watch. I went to a boarding school and we were restricted to two inches of water in our baths. 50p for a pint.what a great life that was. At one point I had been part of the Labour Party but then there was a bigger party going on, maybe that was the step into the 80s.Ī teenager in London, what a great time it was, leaving school in 1976 at 16, getting a job in London as tea boy in a design studio, making £18 a week, becoming a member of the Wag Club on Wardour St, seeing bands every night from Rory Gallagher to 999 and Siouxsee & the Banshees and Wishbone Ash. When I moved there, London seemed quiet but then turned into a superbly vibrant place as I found more of it. The Silver Jubilee, a street party, good food for a teenager and a very dodgy double drum solo, me being the dodgy part. I vividly remember music through the whole of the punk and heavy metal thing, obviously I was in a band like most people! We may have been just ok but it was certainly fun. This, selfishly, meant I paid insufficient attention to political and worldwide matters, so all the miners' strikes, the power cuts with an absolute need to keep in lots of candles, the IRA bombing campaign and Princess Anne's wedding are all very hazy - and I don't think it was due to Newcastle Brown Ale, M&B Bitter or Harp Lager! Holidays to Benidorm and The Costas became ever more popular while the 70s saw the introduction of the student-targeted Inter Rail card which enabled young people to travel extensively across the European continent economically and see places their parents could only have dreamt about. A plague of green-fly and a sea of mud: Led Zeppelin at Knebworth.įor myself, the 70s meant student life, starting work and then moving away from home to become independent - all to a background of going out and trying to enjoy myself as much as possible. Watering the garden with (dirty) bath-water: the first hose-pipe ban. The plusses included a great music scene, long hot summers and, as a child, a carefree existence.ĭoing my homework in bed by candle-light: the three-day week. The bad included strikes, black-outs and a country on its knees. This was a decade with good and bad like all others I guess. Happy days - the heyday of childhood! I wouldn't have wanted to grow up in any other era!! Read and watch your written memories, pictures and videos every Friday in the Magazineīrown nylon clothes, Red Barrel, Action Man, Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Charlie's Angels, Roger Moore as James Bond, Bruce and Anthea in The Generation Game, Liverpool winning the European Cup in Rome (1977), Draught of 1976, Power Cuts, Chopper Bikes. Our road was Catholic, Jewish and Anglican in that order, with a smattering of Quakers. ![]() And despite being Irish, being totally insulated and unaffected by the "troubles". Using Beano and Dandy money to buy cigarettes. Starsky and Hutch, clackers and their reported dangers, hula-hoop's and skateboards. Dancing 20 times to Slade, Merry Christmas Everybody, aged five or six. Seeing Live and Let Die eight times in one year at every boy's birthday party. Ms Dee Smith (right, in 1971 and now) Ashford, Middlesex, UK.īBC Radio 1 doing the Top 20 every Sunday night was an institution in our house. It was a decisive decade where the man in the street made himself heard. ![]() the 70s started with Peace and Love and ended largely in discontent. We had the Good Life, Star Trek, Morecambe and Wise, Esther Rantzen and Tomorrow's World. We had to learn new coinage and endure higher prices. Planes were hijacked and the IRA were a constant threat, along with the Bader Meinhoff group. ![]() I was 'hip' in my flares with braces and shaggy hair cut, my husband grew sideburns and a moustache. Glam Rock and soul music and the end of the Beatles marked the early 1970s and the 3-day week, strikes and the Punk Rock era ended it.
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