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News • National Guard Opens Fire Killing Four

Students At Kent State University • 11 Israelis Are Killed By Palestinian

Terrorists At Munich Olympics  • OPEC Emposes Oil Embargo • Heirs Patty Hearst Is Kidnapped By

Symbionese Liberation Army  • Teamster Leader Jimmy Hoffa

Disappear • Viking I Lands On Mars, Sends Back

Photos • First test tube baby born• Accident At 3-Mile Island Pa., nuclear

Plant Threatens Area 

People

Music

• The music of the 1970s was very diverse

• The Motown sound exploded in the early 1970s (Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross etc.)

• “Classic rock” was very popular (Led Zeppelin, the Eagles, Pink Floyd etc.)

• Disco over the latter part of the decade

• New styles: punk and hip-hop emerged

disco•Disco is a genre of music that originated in discothèques. Generally the term refers to a specific style of music that has influences from funk, soul music, and salsa.

•Originated in the early seventies, but took off in 1975

•Gained incredible popularity with the film “Saturday Night Fever”

•The Bee Gees seem to embody the disco stereotype

•Influenced fashion, fads and trends

•Officially ended in the early 1980s

Top ten songs of the 70s

1. You Light Up My Life – Debbie Boone2. Night Fever – The Bee Gees3. Tonight’s the Night – Rod Stewart4. Shadow Dancing – Andy Gibb5. Le Freak - Chic6. My Sharona – The Knack7. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack8. Alone Again (Naturally) – Gilbert O’Sullivan9. Joy to the World – Three Dog Night 10. Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel

Television•Sitcoms and variety shows were very popular

•All in the Family was the most dominant show

•Others include: MASH, The Partridge Family, the Mary Tyler Moore Show

•Saturday Night Live began in 1975

Television•Cop/detective and drama shows were very popular

•Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie’s Angels, Shaft, CHiPs, Rockford Files, Dallas, just to name a few

•The news show 60 Minutes was also very popular

Movies•The 1970s saw the debut of the blockbuster movie; the first being was Jaws

•While the 1960s was characterized by feel good and musical films, the 1970s was characterized by crime movies, dramas and science fiction

TOP TEN FILMS of the 1970s• Star Wars (1977) •  Jaws (1975) • Grease (1978) • Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) • The Exorcist (1973) • Superman (1978) • Saturday Night Fever (1977) • Jaws 2 (1978) • Moonraker (1979) • The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

•Others: The Godfather (I and II), Rocky

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FashionThe 70s

Jeans get tighter, bikinis get smaller, tube socks get higher, afros get bigger and colours get brighter. It's all about spreading the plumage for everyone to see. From leisure suits to Wallabees, fashions take on the decade of excessive behavior in a storm of polyester, iron-ons and platform shoes.

Fads and Trends•The Pet Rock

•Smiling Happy Face

•8-track tapes

•Mood rings

•Sea monkeys

•Punk and disco

•Streaking

•String Art

•Roller Skating

Slang and Catch Phrases• Skinney real deal or truth ex "let me give you the slinney

on the deal"• ‘Can You Dig It’ Do you understand? " Can you dig it

man?" • ‘May The Force Be With You’ The most popular line

from one of the greatest movies of the 70s(and of all time) Star

• ‘The Man’ means any authority, corporations, police, government

• Get down or boogie - dance • Keep On Truckin - go with the flow • Boob Tube - television • Narc, cool, groovy, far out, real, right on etc