That '70s Lens - Living in the Past
Welcome to my addiction of living in the past - well, at least when it comes to my taste in music.
Pull up a chair and grab a drink and we'll flashback to the decade that many proclaimed style forgot - the 1970s. In particular, the music of the 70s.
Thank you for your visit, and be sure to return often as I will be adding more here very soon.

The Hits: 1970-1974
British Best Selling Singles
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1973 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1973. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1971 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1971. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1972 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1972. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1974 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The UK Singles Chart of 1974 continued to see the domination of the Glam Rock boom that had started back in late 1970. This was reflected in huge sales by artists such as Mud, Suzi Quatro, Sweet and Alvin Stardust. However, although the Glam Rock ar...
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1970 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The beginning of a new decade and here are the superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1970. These are the year's best selling singles in the UK.
Take A Trip Through the 70s
The Hits: 1975-1979
British Best Selling Singles
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1975 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1975. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1977 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1977. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1978 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1978. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1976 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1976. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
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1979 ~ Best Selling Singles (UK)
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The superstars, the one hit wonders and the fads that made up the music of 1979. Here are the year's Top 10 best selling singles in the UK.
The Sounds of the Seventies
Great Seventies Deals
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Best Christmas Songs of the Seventies
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For many years, the record industry in Great Britain has rightfully looked to the run up to the Christmas period as a time when huge sales of records (or CDs and downloads nowadays) can be made. The industry geared itself up to either promote a new...
Your Seventies Music Lenses
The Best Seventies Music Artists
Do you have a lens that highlights a band, group or style of music from the Seventies? Feel free to add it here.
Please only Seventies music lenses. All inappropriate submissions will be deleted.
ABBA: The Best Pop Group Ever
ABBA were one of the most popular and highest sell more...2 points
ABBA: Waterloo Lyrics
My my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrender Oh yeah, more...2 points
10cc: I'm Not In Love Lyrics
I'm not in love So don't forget it...2 points
KC And The Sunshine Band - YouTube Disco
In his youth, KC (Harry Wayne Casey), of KC and th more...2 points
The Sweet Glam Rock Video Showcase
Glam Rock band, The Sweet (or Sweet, as the band l more...1 point
UK Number One Hits of the 70s
This is a video list of the number one singles on more...1 point
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody Lyrics
Lyrics to one of the landmark rock songs of the 70 more...1 point
Manfred Mann's Earthband: Blinded By the Light Lyrics
Bruce Springsteen song famously remade by Manfred more...1 point
Song Lyrics - Piano Man - Billy Joel
Billy Joel is a well known and respected American more...1 point
Song Lyrics - Walking On The Moon - The Police
The Police are a highly successful rock band made more...1 point
Song Lyrics - Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Springsteen is an American singerand songwri more...1 point
Lyrics - YMCA - The Village People
TO BE EDITEDVillage People are a concept disco gro more...1 point
Song Lyrics - Lola - The Kinks
The Kinks were formed in 1963 in North London by b more...1 point
Song Lyrics - Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
Dire Straits were a great English rock band, forme more...1 point
Song Lyrics - Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart was born and grew up in London, althou more...1 point
Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro, although American by birth, achieved more...1 point
Led Zeppelin
I was a child of the 1970s. Music was extremely va more...1 point
Partridge Family Video Showcase
When I was a child, The Partridge Family was one o more...1 point
Song Lyrics - News Of The World - The Jam
The Jam with the distinctive sound of the lead voc more...0 points
Song Lyrics - Up The Junction - Squeeze
Squeeze are an English band that hit the charts du more...0 points
Song Lyrics - My Girl - Madness
Madness are an English pop/ska band from Camden To more...0 points
PFM - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) are one of Italy's more...0 points
Song Lyrics - Your Song - Elton John
Sir Elton John was born in Pinner, Middlesex in En more...0 points
Song Lyrics - London Calling - The Clash
The Clash were an English punk rock band, who from more...0 points
Song Lyrics - Wild West End - Dire Straits
Dire Straits were a great English rock band, forme more...0 points
Song Lyrics - Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top
ZZ Top are an American hard rock band formed in 19 more...0 points
Song Lyrics - Eton Rifles - The Jam
The Jam were an English mod revival band of the la more...0 points
Song Lyrics - Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Donna Summer was born in Boston, Massachusetts and more...0 points
The Bands, Singers & Styles
Seventies Music Favorites
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Barry White Video Showcase
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Barry White’s impossibly deep and sexy voice, one of the most recognizable in music, and his satiny late-night love songs not only brought stardom to the singer-songwriter-producer but turned him into a pop culture icon. He became one of music&...
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Marc Bolan & T.Rex
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The saga of Marc Bolan (born 30 September, 1947 - died 16 September, 1977), leader of glam rock group T.Rex, is one of a spunky little dreamer who looked and played the part of an elvish minstrel; whose bizarre voice and songs were dismissed by criti...
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ABBA ~ The Video Showcase
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The Swedish pop group ABBA came to my attention, along with the rest of Europe, when on a cool April evening in Brighton, England they won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the song, "Waterloo". The "Waterloo" single introduc...
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Block Buster! British Glam Rock of the 70s
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At the beginning of the 1970s, I was in my early teens, an excellent age to appreciate a new phenomenon about to hit the British airwaves: Glam Rock. At the time Glam was a joke. Those of us with Sweet records were laughed at by our friends who were...
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America: The Band - A Video Showcase
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Let's travel back to the Seventies and enjoy once again the melodies of the band, America.
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24websurf wrote...
I loved the 70's! It was a great decade of all types of music! What a great lensography!
martinsejas wrote...
Awesome lens. 5 stars from me. Thanks for creating and sharing your passion.
I've got a blog on 70s songs which is also a passion of mine, feel free to visit and comment on it.
ChineseKitesforKids wrote...
How cute is the Disco Squid?? I love this lens! Fabulous idea for a lensography!!!
tandemonimom wrote...
This lens is a great resource! 5* and featured as a "Related Page" on SquidWho "Donny, Marie, and The Osmonds".









