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The 70s
The 70s (Decades Book S.) Fogarty, Mary and Daily Mail
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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May 10, 2015
Music went through Glam Rock to Punk, fashion passed from the mini skirt to hotpants and platform shoes, sport went from England winning the World Cup in 1966 to the beginnings of the footballing superstar emerging and the young guns of golf appeared while the first lady Prime Minister emerged in the United Kingdom. It was certainly a decade of change.
The superb photographs in this book give a fine cross section of all the important happenings of this memorable decade. On the music front there is a photograph of Noddy Holder and his group Slade in their skinhead days prior to their re-emergence as a Glam Rock outfit (they are hardly recognisable with their short hair and bovver boots); Kevin Keegan began the export of football players to overseas clubs and Seve Ballesteros turned golf professional at the age of 17; Mrs Thatcher began her 13-year leadership of the country in 1979 and commented in an unflattering shot at her hairdressers, 'I must look a mess but life is a bit difficult at the moment'!
There are plenty more great photographs and, with the General Election just having been played out, one of a smiling trio of party leaders Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and Jeremy Thorpe is perhaps uncharacteristic in this day and age. Although it was not all smiles for Thorpe in the 1970s for he was involved in some scandal that took some time to go away - by which time he was cleared of any involvement.
The Ford Capri emerged on the lines of the Ford Mustang, Simon Dee was still a broadcasting icon, Roy Jenkins was the early decade Chancellor of the Exchequer (and is pictured in his office, with which fortunately I was very familiar), the 'streaker' phenomenon emerged and there is a shot of one gentleman streaking on a film set in London and even the Mastermind chair is featured along with the first presenter of the programme, Magnus Magnusson.
Fashion gets good coverage with the hotpants, platform shoe dressed young ladies looking particularly striking and the midi skirt and maxi skirt getting their moments (I don't remember these - but perhaps it was that I wasn't looking at that style of fashion!).
Politically Great Britain joined the EEC, which I remember well, and there was, apparently a Minister for Drought, which I cannot recall at all and for which there has been no requirement in recent years!
It certainly was a memorable decade and these photographs from the Daily Mail archives bring it all back to life; nostalgia certainly reigns with this book.
The superb photographs in this book give a fine cross section of all the important happenings of this memorable decade. On the music front there is a photograph of Noddy Holder and his group Slade in their skinhead days prior to their re-emergence as a Glam Rock outfit (they are hardly recognisable with their short hair and bovver boots); Kevin Keegan began the export of football players to overseas clubs and Seve Ballesteros turned golf professional at the age of 17; Mrs Thatcher began her 13-year leadership of the country in 1979 and commented in an unflattering shot at her hairdressers, 'I must look a mess but life is a bit difficult at the moment'!
There are plenty more great photographs and, with the General Election just having been played out, one of a smiling trio of party leaders Edward Heath, Harold Wilson and Jeremy Thorpe is perhaps uncharacteristic in this day and age. Although it was not all smiles for Thorpe in the 1970s for he was involved in some scandal that took some time to go away - by which time he was cleared of any involvement.
The Ford Capri emerged on the lines of the Ford Mustang, Simon Dee was still a broadcasting icon, Roy Jenkins was the early decade Chancellor of the Exchequer (and is pictured in his office, with which fortunately I was very familiar), the 'streaker' phenomenon emerged and there is a shot of one gentleman streaking on a film set in London and even the Mastermind chair is featured along with the first presenter of the programme, Magnus Magnusson.
Fashion gets good coverage with the hotpants, platform shoe dressed young ladies looking particularly striking and the midi skirt and maxi skirt getting their moments (I don't remember these - but perhaps it was that I wasn't looking at that style of fashion!).
Politically Great Britain joined the EEC, which I remember well, and there was, apparently a Minister for Drought, which I cannot recall at all and for which there has been no requirement in recent years!
It certainly was a memorable decade and these photographs from the Daily Mail archives bring it all back to life; nostalgia certainly reigns with this book.
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