

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour also started. September saw the start of one of the great classic, Faulty Towers. The Good Life also started with sweet felicity Kendall. May saw the first Jim’ll Fix it (cough, he certainly did). Meg Richardson married Hugh Mortimer in crossroads (what a dire soap that was). Consequently, apart from schools programmes and live sport, the channel now shows a trade test transmission between 2pm and the start of children’s programmes. 6 January – Due to cutbacks at the BBC, BBC1 stops broadcasting programmes on weekday early afternoons. Even the training for a forthcoming tour of NI was good fun. Wow, those were really, really happy days. What was I doing in this year? – I was 19 and had finished basic training in the Army, also my basic training to become a Royal Engineer and was posted to Hameln in Germany. The only good bit, apart from the Glam Rock music was Maggie becoming leader of the Conservatives. Harold Bloody Wilson and the sainted Brian Clough (I forgive him his sins). This year was about: Miners’ strike ending with a 35% pay rise, unemployment reaching 1 million, then 1.25 million, more IRA bombings.

So, on we go with memories from 1975: (Thank you Wiki) Not everyone will like my choices of course, and you may remember some from each particular year that you feel should have been included, so do please post a link to the song. I also add a couple of events in history for that year, it helps bring back memories, and hopefully happy ones. So rather than just pick the top 10 hits of each year, I shall let you know what they were, but also the tunes of that year not necessarily in the top 10 or so, what were in my view classics. I am going to try and select a different artist for each year.įor many people, and I include myself, you tend to still like the tunes you heard during childhood, which your parents often played. I am only going to select one featured song for each article, which makes it hard.
The 1975 album cover 2019 series#
This is a series of articles looking at pop music from 1955 when in my opinion proper pop music began up to 1999 when they stopped making it.
