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By Tony Watts - Editor Mature Times - 02/07/2010
It bears a boring enough title: “Social Trends 40”, published today (2 July) by Office for National Statistics (ONS). But the contents are a fascinating insight into life as it was led 40 years ago – when to be alive was bliss, but to be young was very heaven. Well it seemed pretty good at the time.
For start there was some cracking music in the charts that month. ‘Lady D’Arbanville’ by Cat Stevens, ‘Love Like A Man’ by Ten Years After, ‘Abraham, Martin & John’ by Marvin Gaye, ‘Lola’ by the Kinks, ‘Up around the Bend’ by Creedance Clearwater Revival, ‘Green Manalishi’ by Fleetwood Mac, ‘Tears of Clown’ by Smokey Robinson, ‘Down the Dustpipe’ by Status Quo and, if all that wasn’t enough, the mighty ‘All Right Now’ by Free. And what about 'Spirit in the Sky' by Norman Greenbaum and 'Big Yellow Taxi' by the incomparable Joni Mitchell.
Even if you liked your music a bit more traditional, Frank’s ‘My Way’ was in the charts, as was Elvis with ‘The Wonder of You’ and Shirley Bassey with 'Something'.
It makes you feel sorry for today’s generation. And, curiously, the report completely neglects the difference between music then and now. That last bit was me reminiscing about what my kids call ‘the olden days’.
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