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20 Things We Miss the Most About the 1970s

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022Phil Andrews1 Comment

. Us children of the 1970s may bore our kids into slumber with our tales of how great life was back in “our day”, but what was it that made our adolescence so special? There are literally hundreds of things that made that decade stand out amongst all the times in which to be growing […]

Everybody’s on Top of the Pops

September 10, 2021August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

To those of us whose day it was, for so many years all human existence revolved around Thursday evenings and the thirty-minute broadcast on BBC1 which brought us news of all the latest movements from the UK singles’ charts. Whichever football team one supported, which school one went to – Top of the Pops was […]

12 Things We Most Remember About 1976

August 3, 2021August 19, 2022Phil AndrewsLeave a Comment

1. Concorde enters service On January 21st 1976 a British Airways Concorde took off from London Heathrow airport with a full compliment of passengers destined for Bahrain, while at the exact same time Air France’s maiden Concorde flight left the runway at Paris’ Orly airport for Rio de Janeiro. After initially having been refused permission […]