I Get The Swedish Feeling !

They topped the charts throughout the 70s in the UK and they were Sweden's best export next to Volvo. Abba were an essential part of the 70s.

Eurovision

International fame for Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Annifred arrived rapidly after they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and hit singles and albums soon followed before they split in 1972. Find out more

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Mystery Man - The Session King

His face may not be instantly familar, but if you've followed the Top 20 during any period from 1967 through to the 70s, you will have heard his voice.

He's one of the most successful British session singers who once appeared on the same episode of Top of The Pops three times with different bands !

Find out who he is in our artists room.

What We Were Listening To 35 Years Ago

Slade's Cum On Feel The Noize spent four weeks at number one in Britain, until the last day of the month when a new chart brought a new number one for Donny Osmond and The Twelth Of Never.

Roberta Flack was doing well in America with her tribute to Don McClean, Killing Me Softly WIth His Song. After three weeks, she was replaced by Love Train by the O'Jays, but Roberta regained the top slot on the last day of March 1973.

The month brought the sad news of the death of Ron Pig Pen McKernan, keyboard player with the Grateful Dead.

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What We Were Listening To 30 Years Ago

Abba spent the first week of March 1978 as the UK number one with Take A Chance On Me. The rest of the month belonged to Kate Bush with her debut single Wuthering Heights.

It was a good for Gibb Brothers in America. Younger brother Andy Gibb topped the Billboard charts for the first half of March 1978 with Love Is Thicker Than Water. Older brothers the Bee Gees replaced him at the top with Night Fever.

This month also saw the release of the TV movie The Rutles, a Beatles spoof masterminded by Monty Python's Eric Idle and Neil Innes of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band .

Oh the shame !

The fads, the fashions, the shame ! Whether you got your kicks from bouncing on a space hopper, clacking you clackers, collecting Top Of The Pops LPs, or just looking at the nice girls in hot pants on the LP covers, visit the fads and fashions room at the Naff Caff. Exhibits updated regularly.

Social Intercourse At The Naff Caff

Whey- hey, the word intercourse is always guaranteed to attract attention, but did you know you can now indulge in intercourse, of the social variety, with your fellow Naff Caff devotees ?

good clean fun

The message forum is now up and running again. Back by popular demand, well two people asked about it, the forum with lively social debates, amusing cultural debates and saucy mass debates is online now and waiting for your input. Talk about the 70s, 80s, today, music, TV....anything goes.

be there or be.... somewhere else

We have a new forum provider and it's really easy to use. So feel free to drop in, say hi, grab a chair, get a beer, put your feet up and call the cat a bastard. If you can't be there, we expect you to bring a note from home...