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"This popular notion that Brian Wilson did nothing during the 70s but lay in bed and then magically reappeared in the 80s minimizes the compelling and fascinating music he made during a very turbulent period of his life."
"I could do an entire philosophy video on why the 1970s ruled... and probably should also make a video on why the 1970s sucked."
"We can't get our heads around levels of 8% which is something we haven't seen since the 1970s."
"In 1974, at the age of 16, Xu graduated from high school. The college entrance exams at the time were closed, so he set up his first business selling building materials on the street."
"Sarah really is the ultimate Fleetwood Mac song of the late '70s: breathless, ethereal, contemplative."
"Neil wrote 'Limelight' in the late 70s to express his discomfort with the constant attention that came with Rush's megastardom."
"By the late 70s, Berry and his Rerun character were among the most popular on television."
"Over 10,000 pages of UFO documents were released during the late 1970s."
"It might sound like an obvious idea today, but in 1979, it was a big risk."
"The '70s Bond films reflected some of the popular themes and genres of the time, incorporating elements from blaxploitation films and even venturing into space with 'Moonraker.'"
"What Roger Waters created in the late 1970s still motivates us today."
"Once you quit high school in the seventies, you might as well put a BTL loser tattoo on your forehead."
"My dad told me how this song came to be. I remember he would joke with me that Maggie Mae was the Mrs. Robinson of the 70s."
"Americans started taking a keen interest in French cuisine starting in the 1970s."
"London Calling by The Clash is one of the best singles of the 70s."
"In 1973, Elton John reportedly pranked the band by storming the stage in a gorilla costume."
"It was the start of a string of hits that led to Eagles soaring domination of the 70s"
"It's a horror movie from the 70s, this is like breaking new ground."
"The two formed an instant bond and have an unbreakable relationship since their meeting in 1979."
"There was a revolution going on in the film industry in the 1970s."
"In my eyes one of the most iconic legal battles at the start of this era of litigation happened in the early to mid 1970s."
"Scotland has its fair share of UFO sightings, but none more mysterious than the Deckman Woods encounter of 1979."
"Not only was the early 70s a time for great songs it was a time for great equipment some of the best gear and best synthesizer sounds were all invented in that time period."
"Werewolves of London: pop culture since its release in '78."
"I swear there was something about the '70s that just, like, bred crazy wacko serial killers."
"The '70s, hands down. Everybody in the heavyweight division then was championship quality."
"It was the '70s, drugs were still good, especially Quaaludes. If you did enough cocaine, you'd f a radiator and send it flowers in the morning." - Jennifer Pryor
"The Challenger made Dodge one of the coolest car makers of the 70s."
"It was the era that gave us movies like Jaws, Star Wars, and it gave us shaggy carpets, classic rock, and pet rocks."
"Everything we were working on in the early 70s seems to now be coming true."
"The sudden improvement of skateboard equipment in the 70s has made skateboarding boom again."
"I spent time with CIA psychics, so these guys were hired by the CIA in the 70s."
"The 1970s were a fantastic time for funk music, creating some of the best bands and memorable songs."
"As far as in the actual wrestling business anywhere but Japan, Andre, Bruno, and the NWA champion were the three highest-paid wrestlers in the business in the '70s."
"One of the great really great jazz rock albums of the 70s."
"The dreams and Visions formed in the 1970s were becoming reality in the 1980s."
"The mood ring was one of the biggest fashion fads of the 1970s."
"Rumors about the invasion of aliens in this area began massive spreading in the 1970s."
"Gatorgum during the candy era of the 1970s stood out as a fascinating and distinctive treat."
"The new Star Bar is a delicious mix of peanuts, caramel, and chocolate that captures the essence of popular candies from the 1970s."
"Summit Bar was a confectionary gem that graced the candy aisles of the 1970s and left a delectable imprint on the palates of its fans."
"The singers of the '70s, a lot of these singers of the '70s, they weren't just singing about love and about fun. They were singing about stories."
"Sorcerer certainly qualifies as one of the Great Lost films of the 1970s."
"I don't think you can stress just how big this was in the culture, especially youth culture in the counterculture in the 1970s."
"The album is truly a lost wonder of the 1970s blending tons of different styles like rock, jazz, blues, reggae, Latin music, and even bordering on proto-metal at times."
"That was actually the perfect I think 70s New York movie because it was like done in real time."
"No one in 1970s, very, very few people were thinking about quantum gravity. They were still having fun with the standard model."
"Imagine, the '70s, the music was, you know, like, imagine all the people, you know. You had all these message music, Bob Marley, it's a Godly time."
"Floral print really had a huge moment in the 1970s."
"We can't talk about the 1970s without talking about tie-dye."
"Another classic 1970s silhouette is tight on the top and loose on the bottom."
"You can't go wrong with a clog for 1970s style."
"The 1970s kicked off the French new wave movement by pushing it into mainstream Hollywood."
"Britain in the 1970s: a time of great cultural change."
"The 1970s certainly look like a more relaxed, dare we say more mellow era, don't they?"
"Big up anyone that was alive in 1976 that's in the chat, bro. Do you know what I'm saying?"
"The Eagles epitomized the West Coast California sound of the early '70s."
"It was an incredible match because if you remember on the first set Mcenroe came out and knocked Borg off 6-1 in about 24 minutes."
"Temptations, 1970s Psychedelic Shack, psychedelic Funk Soul stuff."
"Asylum Records was one of the important labels in the 1970s."
"L.A. was the center of the musical universe in the 1970s."
"It was a lot of people say that the 70s was the decade that taste forgot."
"Stabler threw for nearly 28,000 yards, fired 194 touchdown passes, and was named to the 70s all-decade team."
"The 1970s saw the birth of punk rock, an anarchic revolution of anti-everything."
"Society has made it kind of be like you know you don't speak about it um you know I'm actually very impressed with the guys from the 70s because they would speak about it a lot."
"Billy Bremner epitomized Leeds United's dominance of British football in the early 70s."
"The Ducati 750 SS is a '70s benchmark. Some people say it is the most iconic bike of the 1970s."
"Miami's victory in the longest pro football game ever played established the Dolphins as the team to watch in the early 70s."
"In the 1970s, America's team was the Dallas Cowboys."
"Rising to prominence in the mid '70s, the star catapulted into the spotlight with his professional debut in the 1974 Broadway production of Love For Love."
"The difference is that we're in much worse shape economically now than where we were in the 70s."
"The airline had its big break in 1970 when it began operations in the double-decker Boeing 747."
"If '70s era muscle cars turn you on, just check out this '72 Chevelle."
"Personal liberty and revolt against authority became the primary themes of the '70s."
"The 1970s were a dynamic era for American pop culture."
"Japanese cars were becoming quite commonplace back in the 1970s in this country."
"The Thanos copter was a real chopper used by Thanos in the 1970s comic book series Spidey Super Stories."
"Music from the 1970s might end up coming back and young people like the sound of it more than they did before."
"The happiest event of the 70s was, of course, the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations."
"In the early '70s, I saw something that I will never be able to fully understand and will certainly never forget."
"The film encapsulates the psychology of a blossoming free spirit in 1970s American youth."
"It's a relic of 1970s science fiction at a time when science fiction was about to change."
"Super Sentai has been a thing since the '70s in Japan."
"And now, in the age of Gerald Ford, Leonid Brezhnev, Harold Wilson, and Karen Carpenter, the Zygons were preparing to unleash their ultimate weapon, a terrifying creature known as the Scarason, or as we would call it, the Loch Ness Monster."
"...the 70s were just such a beautiful time record labels were so open to anything an artist wanted to do..."
"Very heavy metal album cover and the title is Bad Out of Hell which is quite extreme for 1977."
"The 1975 Cadillac El Dorado Convertible stood as a grand cruiser, embodying luxury in the mid-1970s."
"Sound on Sound, though misunderstood in its time, was of course more accepted as a hidden gem of the late 70s."
"If one band could define the West Coast sound of the 1970s, it would have to be Fleetwood Mac."
"I just really wanted to focus on the '60s and the '70s because I feel like those are the two most important decades."
"It doesn't get better than this for 1970s punk."
"It's a testament to the rawness and realness of the '70s punk."
"I'm really reaching for the 1970 album New Morning."
"It's nice to come up with the rules that they had in the 70s... simple tools to create simple moves."
"This almost gives this image like a 1970s vintage film look."
"The Jackson 5 achieved groundbreaking success in 1970 with their first four singles reaching the top spot on the Billboard Chart."
"What show has Farrah Fawcett? Charlie's Angels."
"The soundtrack for 1977 Saturday Night Fever primarily composed by the Bee Gees was an absolute monstrous success."
"The musical film Grease was another smash hit for Travolta."
"It belongs on a list of other audience enthralling films of the seventies like Jaws, Carrie and The Exorcist."
"Comfort became suited to the 70s; there was so much conflict in the world, we wanted comfort."
"The 70s was dichotomous, it's one of my favorite fashion decades."
"This is a great piece of Blues Rock from the early '70s."
"This was the car that we all wanted in the 70s; it looked cool, it was Italian, it's got a twin-cam engine, all sorts of things, and it was like this mini exotic."
"Presenting Sounds of the '70s, all your favorite '70s hits in one fantastic collection."
"In 1978 we invented microwave popcorn."
"A supersonic airliner that will give Britain and France an assured and profitable place in the vast civil aviation market of the '70s."
"For the entire decade of the 1970s, Nordisk's sales grow at 30% compounded annually, which is amazing."
"This feels like us hanging out in the 1970s."
"Imagine big groups of people in California the '70s just waking up knowing that they're going to protest something that day."
"It was now 1970, and this effort proved to be very effective."
"The satanic Panic of 1979 was a period characterized by widespread fears and moral panic."
"This song is genius, one of the best songs to come out of all of 1970."
"I've always had a soft spot for 70s; I absolutely loved them."
"Let's get into talking about the Filipino wave of talent in the 1970s."
"Superstition was released in 1972 and it reached number one in the US Billboard Hot 100."
"In the 70s, being different really counted."
"...Disco was pumping, dude. Saturday Night Live had just come out with John Travolta and whatever, and Donna Summer was hot."
"One of the biggest scams in the 1970s was Pet Rocks."
"As a kid in the 70s, you had only one opportunity to watch your favorite cartoon characters, and that was on Saturday mornings."
"TV reception in the 70s was a real struggle."
"In the 1970s, it was all about the straight-edged bangs, you know, the bowl cut."
"The 1970s brought us the best crime-fighting trio of all time: the Charlie's Angels."
"The 1970s was all about short shorts and tube socks."
"The story of David Cassidy shows how he rose to incredible fame as a 1970s teen Idol on The Partridge Family."
"Grace Jones's transition from the fashion runways to the pulsating beats of the music industry in the 1970s marked a pivotal moment in her career trajectory."
"Join me on a wild comeback in time; we're going back to the 1970s."
"Shogun Assassin introduced American audiences to the over-the-top aesthetic of 70's samurai films."
"This is classic, heavy stuff, underrated rock band in the 70s."
"It's time to get real about the decades that people typically reduce to orgies and bell-bottoms."
"Black political activism that happened in the '70s has gone unchronicled in mainstream media and historical study."
"By 1970, around 70 percent of black people lived in cities."
"Rocketing to stardom in the late '70s with the double whammy of Saturday Night Fever and Grease."
"Freddie wore this silk velvet and sequin jacket for the Bohemian Rhapsody music video in 1975."
"The Ivan Novello award for Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie received this award in 1976."
"Iron Man by Black Sabbath, which sounds like this."
"It's a globe-trotting adventure in the world of espionage in the 1970s."
"What's aged the best? Those late '70s soundtracks with lots of swervy saxophones and Congo beats."
"...she was working in television in the 70s, a growing industry."
"We can't deny that we love our '70s."
"In the vibrant era of the 1970s, Donnie and Marie Osmond emerged as a cherished sibling duo."
"As the musical landscape evolved, so too did their sound, embracing the diverse influences of the 1970s."
"It was good to be a kid in the '70s."
"Eddie the Fat Man Jackson, charismatic son of a pool hall owner and his chief lieutenant Courtney the Field Marshal Brown, a former city bus driver, had built an empire on a par with men like Mickey Barnes and Frank Lucas of New York."
"Flower power, that is exactly what my parents did in the 1970s."
"The 1970s was a time of change in many ways."
"The 70s were pretty creative and they tried really hard to get your attention."
"Life on Mars, 1973. I love my wife."
"The Eagles were the epitome of musical excellence in the 1970s."
"By the summer of 1976, The Sex Pistols had attracted an avid fan base and successfully updated the energies of the 1960s mods for the malignant teenage mood of the '70s."
"The fiscal crisis of 1971 and the stagflation and high interest rates of the seventies is not mostly Vietnam, it's the Great Society."
"I think that's the greatest prog rock album of the second half of the 70s."
"For some, the 1970s were the Golden Age for Japanese Pop Culture."
"If you grew up or lived in the 1970s, then you realize it's one of the grooviest decades around."
"The 70s was really about going all out and having lots of flair."
"In the 1970s, we became familiar with the galaxy far, far away."
"She was also in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, now that was a soap opera that was really, really groundbreaking in the 70s."
"There's something about it that just evoked these 1970s sci-fi films that we loved."
"Now the 70s are actually seen as being not just cool but kind of glamorous."
"They also had air conditioning, which believe it or not was a new invention in the 70s."
"I love the '70s, man. I had a great time."
"Paul Newman and Robert Redford play two grifters in what 1973 film? The Sting."
"It kind of has me reaching for my 1970s Polo necks and those ubiquitous driving gloves."
"I love how this electric thing is so advanced being an electric car in the 1970s."
"I don't know about all the sightings that were going on in the early 70s, but I had something happen to me one night while I was hunting that still gives me the chills when I think about it."
"Hydrothermal vents were first discovered only in the 70s."
"For me, in the mid-70s, it was something of a Bible."
"Pride enjoyed remarkable chart success in the late 1960s and early 1970s."
"I grew up in the 1970s, in a small town in North Carolina."
"I love these shoes, they're so Art Deco, they're so Jean Harlow, they're so 1970s."
"Hello and welcome again to the 1970s and also to just vintage crochet."
"The 1970s had major impacts in American culture."
"We were funking and discoing; we were boogying it out here in the early 70s in the Bronx."
"It's got that funky early 70s style that I like."
"Oh yeah, my rad dude meisters, we're flashing back to the 1970s."
"We were absolutely the luckiest people in the world, lucked into it at the beginning of the '70s and stayed in it."
"Raise your hand if you were the kid in the 70s and wore bell bottoms."
"The 70s is hands down one of my favorite eras like fashion eras of all time."
"Enough talking already, let's dive right in to the 1970s."
"And there's a time in my life in the 70s, as a young man, well, that's a kid, that my mother, who was the mother of three, didn't have a whole lot of time on our hands."
"This is the highest horsepower rated car in 1970."