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1976 Top Thirteen

Hmmm. At this point I can’t decide if the large bias toward the rockier tracks is is more to do with my present-day tastes than 17-year-old me. But my criteria when ordering the top 13 involves putting myself back in my sixth form shoes and visualising which records I actually bought (or taped from theContinue reading “1976 Top Thirteen”

1970s Sports & Leisure

Sporting Highlights Obviously, this can’t include every sporting event, so I’ve tried to give a flavour of the ones which seemed to dominate the media – at least in my house, especially on a Saturday! You couldn’t get away from the all-day, incessant round-up of wrestling and the pools results in “World of Sport” andContinue reading “1970s Sports & Leisure”

1975 Top Thirteen

Some real big hitters this year, with Queen and 10CC, but the Glam Rockers are defo giving way and the epic Jive Talkin’ foreshadows the Bee Gees chart takeover a couple of years down the line. 1) Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody – 11-1975 2) Helen Reddy – Angie Baby – 02-1975 3) 10CC – I’mContinue reading “1975 Top Thirteen”

70s Sweethearts – Linda’s Lament

You have 11 days left to pick up the third Calamity Chicks book – Linda’s Lament at the pre-order price of £2.22/$2.99. Here’s the skinny: Almost Famous meets 10 Things I Hate About You with elements of Queen’s Gambit. How many twelve-year-old girls have toured the UK and Europe with a rock band? Lin thinksContinue reading “70s Sweethearts – Linda’s Lament”

1970’s Hairtyles and Makeup

As for hair – a bit of a cop-out, because I need to focus on Linda’s last few chapters, so I’ll let these awesome pix tell the story. I’ve included late 60s and early 80s, because they had so many iconic pix. As soon as I can find it, I’ll credit the awesome website whoContinue reading “1970’s Hairtyles and Makeup”

1974 Top Thirteen

Finally, at fourteen, I was allowed to go to the Friday night disco in my friend’s village hall and it felt so-oo glamorous and exciting. Proper grown up with all the older kids, including my first proper boyfriend. Glam Rock was still around, but for me this was when the soul stuff I loved startedContinue reading “1974 Top Thirteen”

1970s Food

At the start of the seventies, my folks owned a newsagent so, as you can imagine, I formed a very close relationship with chocolate. How many of these do you remember? I think Mars Bars, Twix and Kitkat are still my favourites, although nowadays, I only allow myself one piece on a Friday, because theyContinue reading “1970s Food”

1973 Top Thirteen

As you can tell by the long list of also rans, this was when I developed a massive love affair with music – mostly the rockier side of pop with oodles of Queen, Bowie, ELO, Fleetwood Mac etc. Still hanging on to a stack of soul and a goodly amount of boppy ones – whatContinue reading “1973 Top Thirteen”