Seventies: The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade – Howard Sounes

When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the Partridge Family to the tune of the Bay City Rollers. It was the decade that taste forgot, a cultural wasteland compared to the decade that preceded it or those that have followed it.