1977 - Oh! What a Year!

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What were you doing in 1977? Maybe it was listening to Carole Bayer-Sager singing You're Moving Out Today. In 1977, it reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. If you'd like a reminder of this very catchy tune, see the video below:


What else was happening in '77? 

TOP 20 News Events from 1977

  1. The Ford Fiesta went on sale in the UK
  2. Clive Sinclair introduced his new two-inch screen television set
  3. Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours was released
  4. Queen Elizabeth II visited Tonga
  5. The first Aardman Animations character, Morph, was introduced on the BBC children's television programme Take Hart
  6. David Owen, 38, became the youngest post-Second World War Foreign Secretary
  7. Mike Leigh's comedy of manners Abigail's Party opened at the Hampstead Theatre, starring Alison Steadman
  8. Red Rum won the Grand National for the third time
  9. The Embassy World Snooker Championship moved to the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and attracted television coverage for the first time
  10. Liverpool F.C. won the English League Championship for the tenth time
  11. Silver Jubilee celebrations were held in the United Kingdom to celebrate twenty-five years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign, with a public holiday on 7 June
  12. Virginia Wade won the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon
  13. Kenny Dalglish, 26-year-old Scotland striker, became Britain's most expensive footballer in a £440,000 transfer from Celtic to Liverpool
  14. Cricketer Geoff Boycott scored the 100th century of his career for England against Australia at Headingley, Leeds
  15. Rock star, Marc Bolan, pioneer of the glam rock movement at the start of the 1970s with T. Rex, was killed in a car crash
  16. Freddie Laker launched his new budget Skytrain airline
  17. Rock band Queen's power ballad We Are the Champions was released
  18. Firefighters go on their first ever national strike, in hope of getting a 30% wage increase
  19. The Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show on BBC 1 television attracted an audience of more than 28,000,000 viewers, one of the highest ever in UK television history.
  20. The original Star Wars  film was released in the UK


What memories does Carole Bayer-Sager's music and the above news events bring to your mind?

Enjoy your reflections.


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