Which was the best year of the 1970's

Spikelangelo said:
1971 based on the book by David Hepworth - Never a Dull Moment, is generally recognised as the greatest year. There's an excellent Spotify playlist of that year that provides a lot of back up for that opinion. My age means I'm slightly biased. The music when you're Seventeen is always the best, and that would be 1974 for me. The recent book "Mayflies" by Andrew OHagan also adds weight to this theory. The first section is based on a weekend trip made by him and his mates when 17 from Glasgow to Manchester to see their favourite bands. Worth a read.
But then again, just remembered Punk and The Clash live at Leeds Poly 1977. It's a harder question than it first looks........
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I love the series of books by Hepworth. Just had a listen to his playlist on Spotify and it is great!
 
The original question was based on the video linked in the OP, which showed the most popular songs each month. The first half of the decade seemed to me to have a much better selection of songs, whereas as the second half is generally dreadful.

This is interesting, because my opinion of the 1970's is that the first half was mostly pretty awful, but the second half was amazing, but that is because of punk, ska, new wave, which surely came out of the mediocrity and banality of the first half. The difference is that the later brilliant stuff was very niche and occurring at the same time mainstream taste looks to have been getting worse.
 
Grrreds said:
I've seen this photo many times and still have the Shoot edition that it appears in.

What this photo has always left me wondering is, did Jim Platt ever wear a white shirt in a game?
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Cracking question Grreds, got me thinking that, certainly not at AP,
 
1978 - I liked - moving from child hood to adult hood - good music - economy doing ok in the North East - allowed to do things and go places without parent(s) - widening horizons - great world cup in Argentina for entertainment - the Boro starting to attack more with a group of good young players developing (Cummins, Bailey, McAndrew, Johnston, Hodgson, Proctor, Shearer, Ramage), we nearly bought and Argentian WC star, not many strikes, inflation dropping.
 
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