To ask what you were doing in the 70s?

[PossiblyPattio]

I feel like having a nostalgia moment. I was a teenager in the 70s and I remember wanting to be like Patti Smith, I idolized her much to my mums disapproval... I was Patti and my friend was Stevie!!
Looking back I was quite cool!!
Any mumsnetters who were teenagers in the 70s? What did you enjoy doing? Who did you want to be? I'm looking back and I miss it so much!!

Chilling in my mother’s ovaries 😎

I was listening to music and buying a top of the hits record which had all of the hits on it but sung by other people and cost about 80p

Didn't they often have scantily dressed ladies on the front? I'd get a K-Tel record for Christmas, that was original artists and cost £2.49!

DH was a great fan of Patti Smith, I didn’t know DH then though, I thought she was quite good, we went to see her a couple of years ago, she was playing in a London park, can’t remember which one. She was also in the Bob Dylan, Rolling Thunder Revue on Netflix

Running notes/errands.
That's what people did before phones sent their kids.

Rolling thunder revue was brilliant! I quite fancied Bob. No fucking clue why.

Village hall discos and brilliant gigs- Stranglers, SLF an The Police. Earlier in 70s just playing out all day making dens etc. My Dm had twins so we had to walk them out in an enormous pram, my sister left them outside the Co-op once. '76 and the heatwave, ladybirds in droves and biting. Guide camp and every day to the out door swimming pool.

what's not to like?
3 day weeks and power cuts maybe?
Rubbish not being collected in the winter of discontent?

I was a teenager when I got married in 1971.
I thought a lot of 70s music was a bit dull compared to the late 60s.
Also the fashion for girls to dress in clothes that looked like a really boring school uniform.
2 elections in 1974 - great hopes of SNP winning seats were not realised.
I produced my first child in 1977.

Bucketing rain all summer in 1979, btw.

Hot pants and flared trousers so wide they wrapped round the other leg when you walked.
Pans People on Top of the Pops, listening to Radio Luxembourg top 20 when I should have been asleep.
Harry Nilsson at number 1 for weeks singing 'Without You'.
The summer of 1976, so hot our lawn actually cracked.

Definitely the good old days

A levels and left boarding school for Kingston Poly. Brilliant

SU had good contacts so arranged for lots of top bands to play our campus as a tech rehearsal before playing in London.

Saw so many really well known ones and plenty unknown who went on to be famous.

Then Punk exploded and nothing was as before. Great times.

Mixed bag.
Great gigs, seaside town full of stuff for young people, early ill advised marriage, children, bad breakup, homelessness, feminism, squatting, London, festivals, bands, living abroad, love of life, rural Earth mother, commune, business, recession.
That's it up to 1979..

Seeing everyone you know in the Friday chippy queue.
Knowing who had no work so dropping extra allotment stuff around.

The three day week - and doing my homework by oil lamp

Eating tea by candlelight. Power cuts in Magic Roundabout. Heatwave and sitting in the shade in the playground. Witches hats in the park over tarnac, fireworks in the garden, ladybirds, silver jubilee seeing the queen, playing out all day, walking home from school alone, latchkey kid, friend's chopper and space hopper, Goose Fair, conkers

Watching Issi Noho and Pipkins, eating Amazin Raisins, sitting outside many pubs with a glass of pop and a bag of crisps, looking after my imaginary horse, dodging my mother's flailing hands, sitting in a cup of tea during a power cut, tap dancing, performing songs from Grease in my friend's back garden while not understanding the lyrics, wearing a lot of brown and yellow

Watching Blue Peter after school on a Monday and Thursday.
Swimming club
Reading Bunty.
Going on caravan holidays in dads Leyland Princess.

Playing outside a lot - we had heatwaves two years running in 75 n 76 I think, but I wouldn't have wanted to be a parent with the inflation touching 75% I believe at one point, the Winter of discontent, the food shortages, the power cuts, the rubbish in the streets etc
I mean - all the power going off and sitting by candle light seems exciting for a child well at first but not so great as an adult.

These are so lovely

I suffered neglectful and abusive parenting but it was a great time. So much freedom and no social media!

Jackie magazine
Oxford bags
Marc Bolan RIP
Wimpy Bars
William Shatner as the best Capt Kirk
Hot Pants
Wanted to be Cherry Gillespie in Pans People
Aquamanda
Charles of the Ritz pink geranium lipstick
Proper Christmas no 1's
Long hot summer of 1976

Three Wishes foam bath, Sunsilk shampoo and Cream Silk conditioner.
The Bay City Rollers (I wasn't a cool teenager).
Jackie and Mates magazines
Denim everything
Fountain pens at school
Boots when it sold everything - books, records, photo stuff.

The summer of ‘76, the grass turning brown, driving to Cornwall seeing the “SAVE WATER” signs
Mars bars costing 8p (our pocket money was enough to buy one a week)
Running around the woods and sliding down the wier in our knickers. Going home only when it got dark
All getting dressed in the bathroom together in front of the Calor Gas heater (no central heating)
Mum cooking our supper on a camping gas stove during the strikes

It was a simple life. Some bad bits, but easy for us kids

Jackie magazine!

I forgot about Jackie magazine!!

I wasn't born until much later but my mum was near the end of her teens and had just started working and learning to drive