Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.rock
Titolo: 1977

 I Love 1977 
Welcome to 1977
 
 
 
VIDEO CLIP:
Carrie Fisher's
1977 
avevo 17 anni... vivevo ad Alessandria... e voi? 
A colour TV
licence cost £21 a year.
Red Rum became the first horse to pull off a
hat trick of wins at the Grand National. 
It was the Queen's Silver
Jubilee, and to celebrate the Sex Pistols released the anti-monarchist
single, 'God Save the Queen' ('cos no-one else will'). It was immediately
banned from the airwaves. 
Pop music lost more than its fair share of
stars, as Marc Bolan, Bing Crosby, and the King himself - Elvis Presley -
died this year. 
Push button trim phones began replacing traditional
rotating dial handsets. 
Celebrity gaffes were exposed for the first
time, as Denis Norden presented the debut It'll be Alright on the Night.
The Sex Pistols 
Despite a BBC radio ban (due to its 'treasonous
sentiments'), The Sex Pistols’ 'God Save the Queen' reached number 2 at the
height of the Jubilee celebrations. 
The group formed with the help of
entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren during the summer of 1975. 
They used to
hang around the punk clothes shop 'Sex' which was run by McLaren and
Vivienne Westwood. 
US punks The Ramones had a hit with 'Sheena is a
Punk Rocker'.
Mull of Kintyre 
'Mull of Kintyre' stands as a
testament to how even the most gifted songwriters can turn out a real
turkey at Christmas time. 
Despite featuring a chorus of bagpipes and
being released at the height of the punk explosion, the song stayed at
Number One for a staggering nine weeks - finally being knocked off the top
of the chart by Althia and Donna with 'Uptown Top Ranking' on February 4th,
1978. 
It lost the accolade of being the worst ever Paul McCartney song
to 'We All Stand Together' with the Frog Chorus in 1984.
Disco 
Disco
fashion peaked with the release of seminal dance movie Saturday Night
Fever. Shiny white polyester pants shot off the shelves like they were
going out of fashion - which they very soon would be. 
A scare that
cotton produced skin allergies led to more and more polyester double knit
items being bought. 
And, perhaps more as a result of static than
fashion, bouffant Farah Fawcett hair became terrifyingly popular.
Flares
It all began on ships. The Naval uniform was the inspiration for the
bellbottoms of the 60s. Then came something that looked... uncannily
similar. 
Actually there were differences. Flares evolved from the
radical bellbottom style that had been promoted by hippies. 
They had a
more subtle shape and were flared from the knee down. The circumference at
the hem was much smaller than on bellbottoms (more like the 'boot cut' of
the millennium). 
The flared-leg boogied on until the end of the decade
alongside skin-tight disco wear. 
Trimphones 
The Trimphone was BT's
first luxury phone. It appeared in the mid 1960s but got buttons (instead
of a dial) in 1977. 
It was available in three colours, two-tone blue,
green and ivory and was the coolest thing to have at your bedside. They
were only available to rent as the telephone system was still a GPO
monopoly at the time. 
The name 'Trim' is apparently an acronym of 'Tone
Ringer Illuminated Model' There was also a leather-clad version called the
Deltaphone, acron- In 1977, who introduced a two-inch screen TV costing
£175? 
IBM 
Toshiba 
Clive Sinclair
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