Really, really bad 1970s single picture covers…
Really, really bad 1970s single picture covers found in a street market in Portugal. The faces of Latin disco in the seventies.
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1981 riot in Coventry
1981 saw a riot in Coventry over racism attended by boxer Errol Christie while The Specials played a gig of unity at The Butts stadium
July 1981: when Britain went a bit mad
July 1981 was a month of riots in Britain but it was also a time when the country seemed to go a little mad with some very unusual incidents
Jangles – ITV drama in a rock club
Jangles was an HTV drama series made in 1982 and set in a rock club starring Hazel O’Connor and only lasted seven episodes
Happy Days and the Rockabilly Revival
American sitcom Happy Days sparked a revival of interest in Rockabilly and Rock’n’Roll during the 1970s
Young, black and British in 1970s Coventry
Being young, black and British in 1970s Coventry was tough but Neville Staple and Errol Christie escaped from the Ghost Town
Birmingham – punk breaks the heavy metal stranglehold
Heavy Metal reigned supreme in the English city of Birmingham in the 1970s until Punk came along as Tony McMahon discovers
Pen pals – making friends pre-digital
In an age before social media, dating apps and mass travel, Pen Pals was how we found out about far off exotic parts of the world
Steve Strange and the Moors Murderers
Steve Strange of Visage and the night club Blitz started out with a punk band he formed called the Moors Murderers and a single Free Hindley