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THE 80'S

The smiley face makes it's first appearance
  It was the creation of  Harvey R. Ball, who was paid
  about $64 for the design back in 1963..ppearance

  
    Rubick's Cube released in 1977. The record for the
    fastest completion of the puzzle stands at 22.95 sec

15 Febuary 1971 Britain goes decimal. Out go
shillings and pence, in come new pence !

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                                                   THE ETCHA SCRETCH                               THE CHOPPER   
                                                                                                                            BIKE

                                                                                  
1979 Sony release's what is to become it's most successful selling product.
The Walkman     

1974 Sinclair releases the Cambridge pocket calculator

  The moog synthesiser is developed, and is used on a number of
  hit records including such classic hit's as Son of  My Father by
  Chicory  Tip !!

With the increase in the number of radio station's on both am and fm    
   the portable radio increases in size. The Grundig Melody boy illustrated

1976 and the simultaneous maiden flights of the worlds first supersonic aircraft, Concorde, between London , Bahrain, and Paris,Rio de Janeiro takes place. Enviromentalists protest against the noise levels.              

  The ford escort every boy racer's dream car. It sold
  for £1,759 new in 1976. Yes orange was the colour
  to have!!!

The Morris Marina

            1979 and Britain gets it's first woman prime minister. Margaret Thatcher                                       

  20-24th June 1971 The very first Glastonbury festival is held.
  It took place on the day that Jimi Hendrix died.Some of the act's
  appearing included Marc Bolan and Al Stewart. The attendance
  was 1500, and admission £1.00 which included free milk from
  the local farm.

In the seventies it was the real thing                                    
                                                                                                                         BABYCHAM

                      The Mebo 11 home of Radio Northsea International

DECEMBER DIARY

                                                    

                                                                 

1979
11 fans were killed at a Who concert in cincinatti

1978
Public Image Limited lay their first ever gig in London.eroin

1977
Wings 'Mull of Kintye' tops the UK xmas charts, to become the biggest British single of all time.

1976
An inflatable pig being used for publising Pink Floyds Animals album broke loose and floated into
London airports flight path

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1974
Ian Hunter announces he is leaving the band Mott the Hooplevie

1973
Slades ' Merry Christmas Everybody' has proved the bands fastest selling record

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          ON TV YOU COULD SEE  
                 The BBC 1 ID                                                                           The Thames TV ID

                                                                                           
                      
  The Bazil Brush Show
     (BOOM BOOM)
                                                                         

  &nb                                                    Henry Winkler starred as "The Fonz" in this                                                  sit com,about the life of an American family
                                               in the mid 50's

   iLinda Carter starred as the
    all American hero Wonder Woman

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  Tiswas probably the best kid's TV
  programme ever.This Saturday morning
  show hosted by Chris Tarrant and Sally
  James gained a massive adult audience
  Also regularly appearing on the show were
  Lenny Henry and Bob Carogese, with of
  course spit the dog

  John Thaw and Dennis Waterman play Regan and Carter
   in the hard hitting police series The Sweeney

                           AT THE MOVIES                        

  1977 the release of Close Encounter's of The Third Kind
  written and directed by Steven Spielberg

1977 see's the release of what is to become one of the most  
successful series of science fiction movies. Star Wars  It was
  written and directed by George Lucas and starred Harrison  
Ford  as Hans Solo and Alec Guiness as Obi Wan               
        
                                      

    1977 John Travolta stars with Karen Lynn Gorney,
     as Stephanie in one of the top grossing film's of 1977   Saturday Night Fever.
     The sound track was written by the Bee Gee's.

1978 John Travolta and Olivia Newton John star in Grease  

1973 The exorcist one of the scariest movies of all time         

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  1971 and Stanley Kubricks movie
  A Clockwork Orange is released. It was nominated
  for four Acadamy awards, including best picture,director.
  but won nothing !!           

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