Back to the 70s

"they were the best days of my life,life was so simple and yet fun no worries then like we have today every thing was just pure fun and laughter, i wish we could bring them days back, i remember getting my first chopper bike in 1970 when i was 11 yrs old and my sister got the chipper bike that she rode on christmas day fell off it and broke her arm,i found a chipper bike in a skip last year have stripped it but not got round to do it up just to bring them memories flooding back,ahh they were the days " jphn

"Life really was so much simpler back then. I remember waking up on Saturday mornings and watching cartoons and eating Frankenberry cereal. Sigmund and the sea monsters, Land of the lost, and H.R. Puffenstuff. Playing with all my friends and building forts in the woods. I was 12 years old in 75 and it was the best times of my life. I would hope on a time machine in an instant to relive those wonderful days. " Mark

"i remember the summer of 1976 because the canal in Alrewas dried up and you could walk a cross the buttom,but you couldnt go skinny dipping " wendy

"I remember UK holidays in Bournemouth and Looe, Saturday morning TV that included White Horses and Zorro (both in black and white), The Banana Splits and the Flashing Blade (my favourite)! Also The Wombles, The Wurzels, Slade, Gary Glitter, David Dundas, Tiger Tokens, The Basil Brush Show, Dr. Who (Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker), Blake's Seven, Van Der Valk, Eye Level, George Best, Martin Chivers, JPR Williams, Gareth Edwards, Joe Bugner, Henry Cooper, Kevin Keegan, Ally's Tartan Army, Nottingham Forest FC, Leeds Utd., Man. Utd., Arsenal, Sailing (Rod Stewart), Survivors, Grease, Star Wars, Abba, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, Happy Days, the Queens Silver Jubilee, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds, going to Church, Sister Dominic, being in the cubs, Roots, A Bridge Too Far, Airfix kits, Airfix toy soldiers, Action Man (you could sit on the Armoured Car and go down a hill on it!), Tonka Toys the Saturday night movie, The Pink Panther (cartoon and films), final score, and the Green 'Un paper. Not only the Raleigh Chopper but the Raleigh Budgie and Grifter (an early BMX??), my Raleigh Arena 5-speed racer and all the people who aren't here anymore. The list goes on........ " Jason

"The 70s to me was the best time to grow up. remembering TV programmes like The Double Deckers, glam rock music, space hoppers, Raleigh Chopper bike. In 1975 I was 12 yrs old and I can still remember those days like it was yesterday. I even have the Double Deckers on DVD now just to bring back those memories. I'm always looking on retro web sites. How I would love to go back in time......" Ian Johnson

"I remember wowing on Bowie a lot, trying to get my head round Jean Genie lyrics, down came the hem lines; Chekhov, strawberries and Blue Nun in Chichester. Red sunsets from a Shoreham bus. Flower power faded but still wearing the ties and the collars as big as saucers. Big boys don't cry - but I did a lot, in telephone boxes when I couldn't get through and then I'd bury my brain in the ICA in London, sampling Bergman, Maoist agitprop from City Limits and trying to surf Dylan's Planet Waves. Best surf was at Woolacombe - playing Pink Floyd round the clock, crashing in a friends cottage, studying love all the time, hoping Proust could teach me something about it." Pop Burns

"Yes...Please take me there!...Please!..."

"I would love to go back to the 70s. It was the best time to be out discoing. German sweet wines you would never dream of drinking now. Always prawn cocktail, steak and black forest gateaux. I still do 70s night food for friends. Ah, they were the days. Take me back please." Ann Thomas

"Parents caravan, 95 degrees, 85 in the shade! really long long long days...they seem to last for ever. i was 10 years old. memories oh sweet, sherbet dib dabs, half pee chews, and my skateboard with criptonic wheels and my chopper bike! young days " Bob

"peeved off cos i am using somthing from the modern world to justify my reasons for going back to the seventies. life was so simple then (maybe cos we had our parents to wipe up after ourselves) i dunno it was just fun... tank tops, penny collar, parker coats, no do gooders thinking they own the world, i remember when we used to play properly out in the parks, up the street with your friends, having a proper childhood and not growing up to fast (something i am still doing now) these days kids think that if they are not up to date with the latest fashion then they do not fit in. it would be great to give my kids a taste of what we had. i reacon the world wood be a better place for it. " bryan berry

"I really don't belong to 70s, cos I was still at elementary, but the years left so much memories to me. I remembered my brothers and sisters played the songs of beatles all day long and got Elvis's style in many ways. While I enjoy watching Jenny (the TV movie ) every evening. It was long time ago, but it was quite the time that I always miss." ROTI

"life was just less complicated back then, the advent of the internet has taken away the innocence of the younger generation. i remember long summer holidays playing in the woods without fear till late...playing football all day ...Saturday morning tele...wrestling on world of sport.. please sir...miners strikes and powercuts...being poor but making do with what we had.. listening to football on the radio live when man utd playing ...simple foods and no takeaways....penny arrow bars.. beano.. whizzer and chips..god i am old and i hate it." Steve

"My teenage years were in the 70s. I went to a lot of concerts. Life was simpler then. Riding our bikes all day, going to parties (keggers). I love the music of the seventies." Marc

"'Take me bak home' To the 70s, best years of my life, no pc's, always out in the fresh air doing something, slim, healthy, fantastic clothes, great tv shows, super music and life was so full you didn't have time to stress or be down, you could go from one job to another wages seemed to cover our simple needs, we walked everywhere, hairstyles where wow and first love's kisses and slow smooches were the biz, so email me when you got a time machine pleaz." Bernadette,Kent

"The clothes, hotpants, platform shoes, flares, staypress trousers, ben sherman shirts. Brut aftershave, Estee Lauder perfume. Glam rock, The Sweet, TRex, David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Mud and on it goes. "

"Life was more carefree, not so much violence, no binge drinking, easy to get to places. Charabang trips to Skeggy. Hot summers, cold winters. "

"Happy dayssssssssssss " Dale Shaylor

"Life was simplier and sweeter glam rock, lazy summer days, choper bikes and space hoppers. Chinese meant going to a resturant (no takeaways). Telly programmes were space 1999, tiswas, saturday night specials in the summer season. The clothes were fantastic so bright loved tye-dye t-shirts. I was a teenager in those hazy happy days how I wish I could go back " lorna, fife

"yeah, the 70's sound great but i think it sounds cool (im only 13) because michael jackson and many other fantastic singers were alive and making music!!! " Cydnei