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”
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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”
Pre-order Chloe’s Chaos
You have until 22nd April to pre-order Chloe’s Chaos the second in the Calamity Chicks (70s Sweethearts) series at the bargain price of £2.22/$2.99. The third book, Linda’s Lament is also up for pre-order. If Tina’s story is the question, Chloe’s story is the answer to why so many of these endearing characters acted theContinue reading “Pre-order Chloe’s Chaos”
1971 top thirteen
Still a lot of bubble gum, along with several proper classics from Labi Siffre, Diana Ross, Cher and Rod Stewart. The likes of the Sweet and T Rex heralded the start of glam rock, and I was totally knocked out by Slade’s Coz I Luv You. Still one of my all-time faves and I’m proudContinue reading “1971 top thirteen”
My 70’s Tipple
Ask anyone to name wine from 70s and almost everyone will mention Blue Nun (a German Liebfraumilch – mother’s milk, anyone???) and Mateus Rose – as drunk by the Queen and Jimi Hendrix – apparently! I suspect the unusual packaging made them memorable: a tall, thin blue bottle a blue and white-clad nun on theContinue reading “My 70’s Tipple”
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