THE SEVENTIES: THE GREAT SHIFT IN AMERICAN CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS.By Bruce J. Schulman.Free Press; 352 pages; $26THE 1970s strike many Americans, in Bruce Schulman's words, as an "eminently forgettable decade an era of bad clothes, bad hair, and bad music impossible to take seriously".
The V&A's archive (which is mainly post-1920) includes jokes that would have been rejected by comedians on the working-men's clubs circuit, even in the Seventies.
This town, which has suffered over various recessions, had real economic difficulties, deindustrialisation, in the seventies and eighties, hit us hard as a town.
Joined the National Theatre and made an impact on stage in Equus, but his career had fizzled out by the late Seventies.
Anyone who was interested in 'the arts' who grew up in the predominantly working-class north-east of the Seventies and Eighties couldn't help but be aware of a huge, and seemingly unbridgeable, divide between what was characterised as High and Low Art.
As Tommy told Rolling Stone magazine: "Our music is an answer to the early seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses".
But how long change takes: we thought equal pay and sex discrimination was sorted once acts were passed in the seventies.
In fact, the great unwashed were constantly renewing the High Arts and some of the finest practitioners were actually ordinary lads (this was the Seventies) from similar backgrounds to mine.
The researchers were struck by the impact of regular physical exercise during the 2000-2011 period, when the volunteers were aged in their seventies or eighties.
It's a shame," said Rita Green, in her seventies, when taking a break from shopping in Hartlepool town centre on Tuesday.
