The 70s

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As a boy growing up in Nottingham, it's a decade marked by football, with Nottingham Forest winning two European Cups on the bounce (1979 and 1980) and winning the top flight upon having been promoted from the second tier that same season. When you're seven, these things are remarkable and you can't quite believe they are happening in your town. Brian Clough's wit, grating voice but compelling personality (like or loathe) summed up a decade where great things were possible by scruffy underdogs in a way that doesn;t seem to happen so much thesedays.

Totally agree with that. I was 9/10 at the time and was lucky enough to taken to some of the games in both campaigns and then be allowed to stay up late to watch the others on TV in glorious black and white.

One thing that definitely doesn't happen these days is paying the princely sum of 75p to get in the Trent End.

As for music surely punk's not dead?

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My favourite TV programme from the 70's was the Old Grey Whistle Test.
This must be the greatest showcase of musical talent ever to grace the small screen?

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Some classic al music from the 70's

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[DazTheSlug]

the 70's were the formative decade for both heavy rock and electronic music

I only started getting into music in 1978 (aged 14), but punk and NWOBHM passed me by and I spent the "wilderness years" (until Metallica's Kill Em All in 1983) delving into the back-catalogs of bands such as Black Sabbath, Led Zepellin, Hawkwind, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Pink Floyd, ACDC and others. Obviously there was also a lot of dross/stuff that has dated badly, but there is a core of landmark material.

[Muddy Retriever]

One thing that definitely doesn't happen these days is paying the princely sum of 75p to get in the Trent End.

I remember paying 50p to get into the "boys pen" part of the Kop at Elland Road. That was right at the end of the 70's.

Football hooliganism really got going in the 1970's and became a common occurrence.

[Muddy Retriever]

The best I could come up with was the Star Wars theme & Imperial march (although Empire wasn't released until 1980). To which you'd have to add Star Wars itself.

The only thing to rival that in the 70's, in terms of both film and its tense trademark music when the shark was about to strike is Jaws.

[Stolly]

Morecambe and Wise
Tiswas
The Good Life
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Sweeney
Life on Earth
Ted Heath
Skinheads
The 3 Day week
The Winter of Discontent
Northern Ireland
The Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon
The summer of 1976 (where I lived it didn't rain at all from May through to September)
Bruce Lee
Brian Clough
Match of the Day vs The Big Match
Jaws
Alien
A Clockwork Orange
Star Wars
Apocalypse Now
Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein
The Life of Brian
Willie Wonka
Swallows and Amazons (the film)
Starsky and Hutch
Charlie's Angels
Hawaii 5-O
The Waltons
Mission Impossible
Simon and Garfunkle
Bob Marley
Fleetwood Mac
The Clash
Abba
David Bowie
The Eagles
Shogun (the book by James Clavell) - I haven't mentioned books of the 70's because most of the books I read in them days and loved (Lord of the Rings, Catch 22, Dune and a shed loads of others had been around for ages)

Jesus I could go on. Despite all of the above I didn't really like the 70's. I used to smoke then too (Bennie Hedgehogs before moving on to Camel for added style points). I also ended up with some huge 'reactorlight' glasses which pretty much ruined all of the photos ever taken of me for about a decade