The biggest stars of the 70s were
Elvis Presley (Parsley if you’re vegetarian)
The Monkees...
and Batman.
Many of you won’t remember the 1970s so i thought i’d give you my take of it. Don’t worry - it won’t take long and then you can get back to what you were doing before i wandered into your life. Here goes. The 1970s began with the end of The Beatles. It was the year they called it quits. But who were they? I’d never heard of them. The biggest stars in the world were: Elvis Presley (who would die in 1977. It was a huge shock to the world of entertainment when it happened), The Monkees and Batman.
In television, Engand and the rest of the United Kingdom had two channels to choose from. You either had BBC1 or itv. I don’t know about the rest of the world but England and the UK had The Double Deckers Show. It was a ground breaker of a programme which appealed to the mass of kids out there, like me, who wanted something that was chirpy and cheerful to watch and turned the 70s into something more special than the 60s had been.
There really was an Elvis Parsley, a boxer, but he must have hated being called by that name. Either his dad had a great sense of humour or he hated the fact that his girlfriend got pregnant.
(Above -The double deckers’ opening credits)
