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The 60’s:

Sunday morning bread and radio stories
The family down the road gets a TV
Space Race
The Beatles
GI Joe
Star Trek
Flower Power
Slim Jane Pretzel Sticks
The Avengers
Launch of Coronation Street
JFK assassination
Woodstock
Jimi and Jimmy and Janis
Martin Luther King
Vietnam
Anti War marches
The pill
The sexual revolution
Decimal currency
Pot
LSD

The 70’s

M*A*S*H
Thunderbirds
Munich Olympics, Nadia Comaneci
Elvis dies
The Walkman
Stevie Wonder
Saturday Night Fever,
Disco
The Sex Pistols
Dark side of the moon
Glam Rock,
Punk
Star Wars,
Grease
Cold War
Smurfs
Abba
Ready to Roll
Bay City Rollers
Fred Dagg
Jon Stevens
Monty Python
David Cassidy
Disco
Smack


The 80’s

Police violence during ’81 Springbok tour
Pat Benatar,
Police
New Wave
U2
Free Nelson Mandela
Dallas, Dynasty, Taxi, Charlie’s Angels, Fame
Madonna,
John Lennon
The death of disco
Rubik’s cube
ET
Thriller
Political correctness
Cold War, Challenger, Chernobyl, Mir, Berlin wall, Tianenmen Square
Aids, Apartheid protests, Stop the tour, Think Big
McPhail & Gadsby, A Dog’s Tale, The Exponents
Blam Blam Blam,
Duran Duran
Radio with Pictures
The Black Monday crash
Cocaine.
Shoulder pads
MDMA

The 90’s

Seal,
Nirvana
Grunge
Acid Jazz
Acid House
Seinfeld, Pulp Fiction, ER, X Files, Frasier
NYPD Blue
Nelson Mandela freed, collapse of Soviet Union and Apartheid
End of the cold war
Y2K bug
Unibomber, Columbine,
Princess Diana dies,
Clinton gets blown by Monica
Sarajevo,
Rwanda
Ebola,
Mad Cow
Internet
Broadband
Email
Generation Y
Epic Trance
Glow sticks
MMP