Sunday 18 April 2010

1979


Patti LuPone appears on the September cover of After Dark



Shah of Iran is deposed



Margaret Thatcher elected Prime minister in UK


It snows in the Sahara Desert




Pink Floyd release The Wall



Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe.



Lord Mountbatten is assassinated by the I.R.A.




China institutes its One Child Policy



Sony introduces the Walkman





Andy Warhol shows Male Models on Manhattan Cable


YMCA sues the Village People for libel



Trivial Pursuit is launched


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Now playing: Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

6 comments:

little augury said...

oh, I remember- it all, how progressive it all seemed, 31 years ago. some of the music was definitely better, undoubtedly.pgt

An Aesthete's Lament said...

Alas, I remember everything. Except the Patti LuPone cover. That was a shocker.

Mrs. Blandings said...

I listened to the Wall endlessly; it scared my mother a little.

THE PICKLED HUTCH said...

1979-the year I graduated from high school so this is so, so familiar. Great memories.
xoxo
Lisa & Alfie

Jill said...

Wow...what a year! I was 11...my bell bottoms were getting caught in the spokes of my bicycle.

david john said...

flashback!

i was 5 years old playing with barbies!