In Perfect Harmony: Singalong Pop in ’70s Britain

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Ariana Madix arrives at Dancing With The Stars rehearsals clutching a pain killer bottle with boyfriend Daniel Wai by her side as she continues to dominate According to the publisher, In Perfect Harmony promises to take the reader on a journey through the most colour-saturated decade in music, examining the core themes and camp spectacle of ’70s singalong pop, as well as its reverberations through British culture, “the pioneering social history of a musical revolution.”I'm A Celeb's Tony Bellew and Nigel Farage leave viewers 'heaving' as they are forced to drink blended penises during gruesome trial: 'This is vile!' Lawrence grew up in the village of Water Orton near Birmingham, where on the evening of 21 November 1974, bombs attributed to the Provisional Irish Republican Army went off in two city pubs called the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town, killing 21 people and injuring 181. Among the fatalities were an 18-year-old girl called Maxine Hambleton, who had popped into the Tavern in the Town to hand out invitations to her housewarming party, a 17-year-old called Jane Davis, who had gone in to look at the holiday photographs she developed earlier that afternoon, and Neil Marsh and Paul Anthony Davies, 16- and 17-year-old friends with a shared love of Bruce Lee and kung-fu, who were killed by the blast as they walked past the Tavern in the Town. They were only in the city centre because they were at a loose end after the youth club they had planned to spend the evening at was closed. North London’s de Paul was a glamorous figure who was so outraged by her former boyfriend Sean Connery saying it was OK to slap women that she did a kiss-and-tell on him and gave the money to Erin Pizzey’s domestic violence charity Refuge. She and fellow mainstream songwriter Barry Green wrote this 1940s Gypsy jazz-influenced slice of sensual, escapist pop for a simple reason. “The 70s were bloody depressing,” said Green. “So we were doing major key songs that looked at the past through rose-coloured glasses: those were the days, my friend.” 6. Hector – Wired Up (1973)

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