Thursday, December 10, 2009

What, in your opinion, are the top 10 or 15 major events of the 1970's?

I'm doing a video project and want to know what people think are the most important events, fads, music groups, movies, ect. of the 1970's.



What, in your opinion, are the top 10 or 15 major events of the 1970's?phantom of the opera



I may not have ten here for you, but here are a few:



Watergate - Resignation of Nixon



End of Viet Nam War



The Killing of the Israeli team in the Munich Olympics



The Proliferation of "Free Love" ie: Bob Jane Ted and Alice.



Marijuana, LSD, and Speed usage amongst teens and college age people influenced a lot;



Disco came and went



We celebrated our country's bicentenial



Helter Skelter: Charlie Manson and cohorts.



Patty Hearst kidnapping and brainwashing.



Break up of the Beatles



Notable Death of Elvis



Death of a Pope



Notable People not mentioned above:



Timothy Leary



What, in your opinion, are the top 10 or 15 major events of the 1970's?listen to opera opera theater



Bohemian Rhapsody %26amp; The Punk Rock Movement.



Never mind the B*llocks...



oh and Grease %26amp; Quadrophenia Movies.
The innocent Brady Bunch and Partridge Family. The music of The Carpenters and the Partridge family's "i think i love you".



giving way to :



The anger over the Vietnam War, gas rationing, the resignation of a President, the birth of heavy metal, disco, studio 54...



free love, drugs, dr. demento....



gerald ford, jimmy carter...



the end of the playboy era, jaws, the freedom train, the exorcist, refugees....snowstorms!



wow..the 70s were exciting! i wish i wasn't still wearing footie jammies..but im glad my parents made me watch the news..and they made a lil' of their own!
me, being born lol!
Important events:



Sony releases the U-matic



Music groups:



The Supremes performed for the last time, Black Sabbath's debut album, Mick Jagger was fined for possession of cannabis, The Beatles did their last studio performance.



Movies:



Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Airport, The Aristocats, M*A*S*H



I can't think of anymore - mind blank. Hope this helps.
Punk and the Summer of Hate in (1976)



The last Morris Minor built (1971)



The Salyut Space Stations starting in (1971)



Power cuts and the three-day week (1974)



The beaten Yankee Imperialists getting kicked out of Viet Nam by lightly-armed, courageous locals wearing pith helmets, slippers and cotton pyjamas! (1974)



The Birmingham pub bombings on 21st November, 1974 which killed 21 people and injured 182



Ultravox! (1977-79)



The beginning of the New Dark Ages in 1979 when Thatcher won the election
Gas shortages and rations.

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