The greatest year of the 20th C

[Pstotto]

1970

[houseboy]

1970

Go on then - I'll fall for it - why?

[Buxtonclaret]

It can only be....

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Layla!

[tim_noone]

Go on then - I'll fall for it - why?

Pstotto was Born.

[houseboy]

Pstotto was Born.

That was the answer I was expecting but with our Pstotto you never know - if nothing else he is 'interesting'.

'69 does it for me, the year of peace and love, the first man on the moon, the year I left school and, shortly afterwards, I became a man (in the biblical sense). The first rumblings of progressive rock were starting to be heard and musically in general a fabulously inventive period. I was also going to add my first game at the Turf but I think that was the year before.

Aah - as they say, never forget nostalgia.

[Foulthrow]

Surely 1960!!!!

(or 1921)

(or 1914 - well, maybe not given events away from Crystal Palace....)

[houseboy]

It can only be....

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Layla!

Oh yes - a fine album, often considered Clapton's finest hour. Dave Mason, Duane Allman, Bobby Whitlock etc. Mostly came together as a result of playing on George Harrison's magical All Thiings Must Pass. Strangely it wasn't an immediate success but grew to be one of the defining albums of the period. The title track of course has one of the most recognisable guitar openings ever.

The sad thing is that the song itself is about Harrison's wife, who Clapton would eventually 'steal'.

[No Ney Never]

That was the answer I was expecting but with our Pstotto you never know - if nothing else he is 'interesting'.

'69 does it for me, the year of peace and love, the first man on the moon, the year I left school and, shortly afterwards, I became a man (in the biblical sense). The first rumblings of progressive rock were starting to be heard and musically in general a fabulously inventive period. I was also going to add my first game at the Turf but I think that was the year before.

Aah - as they say, never forget nostalgia.

A vintage year, you left school the year I was born Houseboy.
It was great being a young un in the 70's, you grew up with an appreciation of so many styles of music.
Dad loved his rock n roll, mum the sixties, my older sister the glam, ABBA and all, and my elder brother stacked the gramophone with all the weird stuff. That's when you could stack seven 45's on the pin and one would drop when the other finished playing.
I began to develop my own identity when the pistols came along, progressed into rock and later new wave as I entered secondary school in 1980.

[TVC15]

1982 - Italy won World Cup and I won keighley cup and Coldstream cup and a few others I can’t remember the name of without opening my trophy cabinet !!

Oh and 1990 - Italia 90 and I got married !!

[Billy Balfour]

1970? I'm shocked, Pstotto. I had you down as a 1933 man.

[Pstotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hom0fYd5uX4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Great music in the charts, like this (canned heat). It was a zenith of sorts of humanity, great cars, good music good vibes, optimism, the WC in Mexico was something exotic, more the ambience and feeling of a peak of humanity, space travel, holidays abroad on TV, new frontiers.

Regarding 1933...

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Good shout, but I claim it's a Chaplin not a Hitler, which suits my comedic outlook on life, born 1962 incidentally.

[Billy Balfour]

1928 - Penicillin.

I wonder how many of us would be here if it wasn't for penicillin. We might never have been born.

[Pstotto]

That's not so much the year but a single invention made in that year.

[LoveCurryPies]

1969. Man landing and walking on the moon. Elvis still in his prime. Bowie and Elton about to make their first recordings. Black and white TV but colour is about to explode on the world.

[Imploding Turtle]

Obviously 1983

[houseboy]

A vintage year, you left school the year I was born Houseboy.
It was great being a young un in the 70's, you grew up with an appreciation of so many styles of music.
Dad loved his rock n roll, mum the sixties, my older sister the glam, ABBA and all, and my elder brother stacked the gramophone with all the weird stuff. That's when you could stack seven 45's on the pin and one would drop when the other finished playing.
I began to develop my own identity when the pistols came along, progressed into rock and later new wave as I entered secondary school in 1980.

Wonderful times mate - the 70s were a great time for music, so many things happening and so inventive (if you forget the dreadful 'disco' scene). Strange that Johnny Rotten (Mr Lydon himself) famously slagged off Pink Floyd as dinosaurs only to be seen a few years later wearing a Floyd t-shirt and telling everyone Peter Hammill was a hero. The Pistols certainly shook up music though and it seems a shame to me now that there is nothing comparable to prog or punk or glam to shake the world, musically. All the rebeliousness seems to have gone, with the exception of a few posing, swearing rappers, most of whom are crap (although I do like M&M - he can write some great lyrics). Music now more than ever (and I accept that to a degree it was always thus) is in the hands of the corporates whose desire for money and 'hits' has far outstripped any claims to art. Rock and Roll, the Beatles, psychodelic rock, prog, punk and even the new romantics of the 80s would hardly have got a foothold these days as the music industry goes for looks rather than talent. Girl bands churning out music (I use the term loosely) aimed at females whilst making videos aimed at males, pretending to promote female independence whilst using sex to sell is hypocrisy in the extreme. Pretty boy bands releasing forgetable pap aimed at pre-pubsecent girls (making videos aimed at same). It's all so f**k*ng boring.

Right, that's it I'm done.

[Firthy]

1944 D -Day probably the most significant event of the century.

[dougcollins]

1976.

The summer of punk.

[tiger76]

1953 was a significant year,Everest conquered,Lizzie's coronation,and the small matter of the Matthews Final.

In my lifetime the most newsworthy year has too be 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall,the Tiananmen Square protests,and domestically the Hillsborough tragedy which changed football forever.

[GordonvaleClaret]

1st 1966
2nd 1945
3rd 1918

[AfloatinClaret]

1953 was a significant year,Everest conquered,Lizzie's coronation,and the small matter of the Matthews Final...

I only recently realised that whilst Everest was for many years considered a 'British' mountain due no doubt to John Hunt's team making that 1953 first-ascent, it actually wasn't until 1975 (Doug Scott & Dougal Haston on Bonnington's SW Face Expedition) that the first Briton actually reached the summit; Edmund Hillary/Tenzing Norgay being NZ/Nepali