1970 ROLF HARRIS – Two Little Boys (1st.2nd and 3rd week) EDDISON LIGHTHOUSE – Love Grows (final week) 1971 DAVE EDMUNDS I Hear You Knockin’ (1st week) CLIVE DUNN Grandad (2nd, 3rd & 4th week) GEORGE HARRISON My Sweet Lord (final week) 1972 BENNY HILL Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) – (1st... »
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Pop Cover Version LPs
Although the market of today is awash with compilation albums, the Now That’s What I Call Music 27′s and the Dance Heat – The Second Fire types were in short supply in the early 1970′s. For the 70′s youngster (or the just-generally-tight-with-money person) an... »
Curly Perms
Oh dear. In 1978, just as hair was getting shorter, punk/new wave fashion had taken over from the baggy trousers with 8 inch waistbands and platform shoes were back on Do Not Bring Out Until The Mid 90s shelf, the Anonymous Saint Of Glam... »
Featured Fad – I-Spy Books
They stirred the inquiring mind of the 70′s child, they were educational, they were very cheap…… I Spy books were the first examples of the self help & self... »
Saturday Morning Children’s TV
Up until 1976, children’s TV had mainly been restricted to weekdays between 4.0 and 5.45pm. No one seemed to know what to broadcast on Saturday Mornings, apart from the... »
Power Cuts
Our friends overseas will be stumped with this one, but those of us from the UK remember them, don’t we ? OK, it wasn’t a fad as such. In... »
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