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In the UK the summer was long and very hot.... the grass turned yellow in the worst drought for 250 years. !
In 1976 the safety pin becomes an unlikely item of fashion as the Punks
move in on the scene.
By December the Sex Pistols and Souixie Sue were on TV with Bill Grundy..... it became the Punk Happening of the year !
New TV of the time.....
Duchess of Duke Street.... (kind of BBCs answer to Upstairs Downstairs)
Bouquet of Barbed Wire....
Muppet Show
George and Mildred
Just William ( must have been the one with Bonny Langford )
The New Avengers
The Glittering Prizes.
Angels ( twice weekly ) (think Shirley Cheriton was in it .)
Sebastiane... (the only movie ever filmed with Latin dialogue)
Carry on England ( a big flop )
Peter Sellers met the 21 year old Lynne Fredericks.
Harold Wilson suddenly stepped down and Callaghan took over the reins.
Jeremy Thorpe resigned leadership of the Liberals.
Soweto uprising left 100 dead.
Ulrike Meinhoff hung herself in prison ( at least, that was the official story ! )
It was a very hot summer in the UK... perhaps that contributed to the Nottinghill Riots which left 456 injured.
Viking 1 sent back colour pics from the surface of Mars.
Fernando was a massive hit for Abba
In Autumn Abba released the LP... Arrival.
Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision with " Save Your Kisses for Me "
Meanwhile, down in Brighton the young punk Billy Broad gave up his studies and changed his name to Billy Idol.
Agatha Christie... the UKs richest author... died age 78.
Over in Paris they began a Concorde service down to Rio...
In 1976 the safety pin becomes an unlikely item of fashion as the Punks
move in on the scene.
By December the Sex Pistols and Souixie Sue were on TV with Bill Grundy..... it became the Punk Happening of the year !
New TV of the time.....
Duchess of Duke Street.... (kind of BBCs answer to Upstairs Downstairs)
Bouquet of Barbed Wire....
Muppet Show
George and Mildred
Just William ( must have been the one with Bonny Langford )
The New Avengers
The Glittering Prizes.
Angels ( twice weekly ) (think Shirley Cheriton was in it .)
Sebastiane... (the only movie ever filmed with Latin dialogue)
Carry on England ( a big flop )
Peter Sellers met the 21 year old Lynne Fredericks.
Harold Wilson suddenly stepped down and Callaghan took over the reins.
Jeremy Thorpe resigned leadership of the Liberals.
Soweto uprising left 100 dead.
Ulrike Meinhoff hung herself in prison ( at least, that was the official story ! )
It was a very hot summer in the UK... perhaps that contributed to the Nottinghill Riots which left 456 injured.
Viking 1 sent back colour pics from the surface of Mars.
Fernando was a massive hit for Abba
In Autumn Abba released the LP... Arrival.
Brotherhood of Man won the Eurovision with " Save Your Kisses for Me "
Meanwhile, down in Brighton the young punk Billy Broad gave up his studies and changed his name to Billy Idol.
Agatha Christie... the UKs richest author... died age 78.
Over in Paris they began a Concorde service down to Rio...
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