Yearbook Yourself

These are photos of me as I would have looked if I was leaving high school in the Seventies. I got these from the site yearbookyourself.com.

Yes, I am getting a bit bored and desperate and it would be really good if some of you lot would contribute to Pop&Crisps. No pressure.
Josie [...]

Kevin Keegan

Kevin Keegan was my first star footballer. I was too young for George Best and Bobby Charlton. Kevin was the sudden football celebrity when I was becoming aware of such things.
In my home village, which is located in North Warwickshire, most children (most boys as girls didn’t tend to see the point in football back [...]

The Generation Game

Bruce Forsyth on the Generation Game was our standard Saturday night viewing during the Seventies. How we laughed at the incompetence of the contestants as they attempted to perform various tasks that had been demonstrated.
Bruce’s co-host was Anthea Redfern who was a dancer and model. I don’t remember whether they knew each other before the [...]

Survivors TV Series

In 1975 a British TV series from Terry Nation and the BBC tackled the issue of the collapse of society after a worldwide virus. Survivors became a cult classic and is still available now on DVD, having been reissued in 2003-2005. It was also adapted into a book. Alys my partner loved it in repeats, but I’d never [...]

Des O’Connor

Des O’Connor is like the king of showbiz. I heard him on the radio yesterday plugging his new album and it took me right back to the Seventies. He did this talk show which preceded the likes of Wogan and Russell Harty. Of course, Parkinson was already on then and I’m sure I’ll be blogging [...]

Jaws

I wasn’t allowed to watch Jaws as it was too scary. In fact I don’t like to watch it now for the same reason. Yes I’m a wimp, I’m scared of Scooby Doo. The thing about Jaws was that it stopped you wanting to swim in the sea, which we often did when on holiday [...]

The Kinks

The Kinks had hits through the Sixties and Seventies and into the Eighties and are apparently preparing now for a comeback. Some of their major hits are still played on ‘classic’ radio and have been covered by other artists, for instance You Really Got Me Going, Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset. My favourite song of theirs [...]

Dallas

Dallas is a place in Texas, this we know. I didn’t, actually, until I was eight and watching JR Ewing strut around in his cowboy hat on the TV in 1978. I thought that Dallas was the name of one of the characters until I was corrected that it was in fact the setting, and [...]

The Seventies Economy

There is much discussion in the press lately that our stuck economy is ‘as bad as the Seventies’. When the drop in interest rates was announced last week, it was said that it was the biggest drop since 1981. This prompted me to wonder about the Seventies economy. As I wasn’t old enough then to [...]

The Beatles Legacy

The Beatles broke up in 1970 (announced according to Wikipedia in April 1970 by Paul McCartney). So technically you could say, if you were going to be really pedantic about it, that I shouldn’t discuss them on a Seventies nostalgia blog.
However, considering my mum was a great Beatles fan and for the first ten years [...]