The year began with Wings having a number one hit with Mull of Kintyre and the soundtrack to Grease went on to be number one for 18 weeks! Films included Revenge of the Pink Panther, Watership Down and of course Superman!
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy begins on Radio 4, The first "naturist" beach is opened in Hastings, Anna Ford becomes ITN's first female News Reader and Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen in Switzerland. Kate Bush tops the charts with Wuthering Heights and is the first woman to have a self penned number one single!
Amongst the groups that were making waves that year were the Boomtown Rats fronted by Bob Geldorf who were the main feature with pin-up in the December issue of Look-in. Their single Rat Trap hit number one in November.
Other popular TV programmes featured still included The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman though they were joined by the Famous Five of Enid Blyton fame and parodied in the eighties by The Comic Strip Presents. I read some of the books when I was younger but never saw the programme.
Other programmes appearing included sex starved The Smurfs who only had the one woman between the whole lot of them it seemed and How The West Was Won which I don't recall at all.
Alice Cooper released his album From The Inside following his staying rehab for alcoholism. Nothing to be ashamed of so many of us have been there.
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And finally tomorrow a Look-in" to 1979 the decades end!
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