President
Gerald Ford
barely escaped assassination.
Watergate
continued to implode with the convictions of former Nixon boys —
Haldeman,
Ehrlichman and
Mitchell.
Cambodia fell to
Pol Pot. Saigon was
on its way to become
Ho Chi Minh
City.
Elton John, The
Bee Gees
and
David Bowie seemed to dominate
the music scene.
Paul McCartney formed the group, Wings.
Captain & Tennile’s “Love Will Keep Us Together” and
Glenn Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy”
topped the
Billboard charts. Top
movies:
Jaws,
One Who Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest,
The Rocky Horror
Picture Show,
Monty Python and the
Holy Grail,
Salo, Or The 100 Days of
Sodom, and
Dog Day Afternoon.
Peter's Pence, by
John Cleary, picked up the Edgar for best mystery from the Mystery Writ
ers of America. Arthur
Hailey’s
The Moneychangers,
Judith Rossner’s steamy
Looking For Mr. Goodbar,
E.L. Doctorow’s
Ragtime and
Agatha Christie’s
Curtain (
Poirot’s last case) were the year’s best selling books.
Angelie Jolie and
Bradley Cooper entered the world,
Chiang Kai-shek, and
Pier
Paolo Pasolini left it, as did the demonic Spanish dictator,
Franco.
Union boss
Jimmy Hoffa went
missing.
The words “Corinthian leather”
entered our lexicon. If you were around, what were you doing during the year of
the wood rabbit?
3 comments:
Ah, the '70s. The Pacer was an ugly car, but some of the other stuff wasn't so bad, especially the movies. The '70s had some good movies, and '75 was one of the better years.
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