1976 is a defining year in British music. The glam rock of the early 70's is making way for disco as it gains mainstream success. There is also a disturbing trend in sickly pop ballads. But young people are becoming increasingly frustrated at the lack of opportunities and the general staleness of the establishment. Harold Wilson is Britain's Labour prime-minister, Margaret Thatcher has recently replaced Ted Heath as leader of the Tories while Jeremy Thorpe leads the Liberals.
Elsewhere, Gerald Ford is president of the United States. He faces his first election having inherited the presidency with Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974 and the vice-presidency when Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973.
But 10 year-old me is oblivious to all of this. He attends Northleach C of E Primary School in the Gloucestershire, Cotswold country side and his main interests lay in convincing his mother to let him have jeans with flares and seeing what they got up to on Blue Peter. He developed a crush on an older woman; 14-year-old Rumanian gymnast, Nadia Comeneci and love is developing with the romance of the FA Cup.
Love to love 1976.
