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70s Conspiracy Movies We Need Now (or Not…)
By John Visconti The late 1960s and early to mid-1970s were a time of significant change for our country. The optimism and positive vibes of the 1960s gave way to cynicism and distrust regarding our...
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The One-Hit Wonder File: ‘Rock On’
By Eoghan Lyng With his dewy eyes, tousled hair, and angular good looks, David Essex was every bit the seventies icon he never quite became. Moviegoers will recognize him for his hardened turn in...
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Dave Mason Is ‘Alone Together (Again)’
By John Visconti Dave Mason is a legendary musician and songwriter. He was a founding member of the band Traffic, along with Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, and Jim Capaldi. Mason is best known for songs...
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George Thorogood: 1982 Is ‘Peak’ George
By Will Wills In the late 1970s, George Thorogood was blistering the airways with his boogie-blues musical style, a combination of the Bo Diddley shuffle and slide power chords. Since then he (with...
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Alexa Devaluation, Cutting Room Floor Edition
Joe Pinsker at the Atlantic has written, “Amazon Ruined the Name Alexa,” that develops the story of the name, which I started tracking with a pick drop in 2017, writing: “You have to feel for people...
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Patti Smith: 10 Songs That We Love
By Eoghan Lyng From Joe Strummer to Billie Joe Armstrong, boys have long had their punk role models. Chief among them was Patti Smith (whose appeal wasn’t limited to punk boys). Spinning tales of New...
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T.Rex: Welcome to the Rock Hall of Fame!
By Eoghan Lyng Roxy Music was sexy, David Bowie cryptic, T. Rex was rock ‘n roll. More so than any other act, T.Rex deserved the crown of “Glam Rock” with every bit of credit. They definitely looked...
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Do You Remember These 25 Classic Saturday Morning Shows From the 1970s?
by Maggie Lovitt Once upon a time, Saturday mornings were for more than just sleeping in. The 70s were filled with classic programs like Wonder Woman, The Brady Bunch, and M*A*S*H that aired during...
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The Rock Concert – A (Crazy) Oral History
By Sherry Thomas The rock concert: we put on our favorite band shirt and wait for the lights to go down to watch the performers who created the soundtracks of our lives. That experience is like no...
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Stephen Sondheim and the Re-Invention of the Modern Musical
I’d been hoping that by now someone would have done the wide-ranging and magisterial piece, after Stephen Sondheim’s death was announced at the weekend, locating him in the history of the theatre...
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History Slam 203: Flying to Extremes
By Sean Graham If you read any edition of the Year in Review (100 Years Later) series, you’ll notice that I, to the great frustration of my co-author Aaron Boyes, insist on including advancements in...
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Is It Really the 1970s Again?
By Richard Heinberg For the United States and much of the rest of the world, the 1970s were a time of high oil prices, surging inflation, stock market swoons, political upheaval, and geopolitical...
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The One-Hit-Wonder File: ‘The Monster Mash’
By Graham Pierrepoint If there’s any song that gets dug back out for the holidays – at least those ahead of the festive gorging on the horizon – it’s Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett’s landmark hit, “The...
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Be More Open and Less Directive, Start With These Words
In the 1970s, psychologist Matie Flowers carried out an experiment to study how teams discuss and make decisions. Flowers asked 40 separate teams to come up with plans to solve a hypothetical...
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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change
By Matthew Green Narrated in the upper-crust accent favoured by British documentary-makers of the era, Shell’s 1981 film Time for Energy assesses the scope for solar, wind, nuclear, and other sources...
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The Top 10 Bubblegum Hits
By John Visconti In this season of proms, graduations, vacations and long days, this charmingly goofy post, from back in 2019, seems worth a new look… Bubblegum Music: songs sprinkled with catchy...
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A Wasted Childhood. August 25th, 1975
It was the first day of school at Our Holy Redeemer and it was hot. At 7:30 in the morning it had been 75 degrees. Temperatures climbed all morning. and the humidity was hovering between brutal and...
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25 Classic Saturday Morning Shows We Love From the 1970s
By Maggie Lovitt Once upon a time, Saturday mornings were for more than just sleeping in. The 70s were filled with classic programs like Wonder Woman, The Brady Bunch, and MASH that aired during...
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Python’s ‘Grail’ Anniversary Is Worth Celebrating
By Eoghan Lyng Editor’s Note: Monty Python and the Holy Grail is celebrating its “48 ½” anniversary. *** A 90-minute comedy flimsily stitched together from disparate sketches. A male lead who had...
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Studying ‘Why Women Are Interesting, and Men Are Boring’
By Christy DeSmith, Harvard Gazette Raised in the Bronx by parents who placed high value on the sciences, Harvard’s newest Nobel laureate wanted to be a researcher from a young age. “Oddly, I thought...
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