In the year 1970....

So far we've listened to and contemplated David Bowie's first 2 albums. Album no'3 'The Man Who Sold the World' came out in good ol' 1970. Let's have a shufty at that year then shall we:



The Beatles finally found time out of their busy schedules to officially break up.

The Isle of Wight festival became a legend, as did Youth Worker David Ralph who took along some teens from the Westbrook Crusaders Christian Youth Camp he was running. In later years fans were split over who Ralph resembled more, the Dungeon Master from Dungeons and Dragons or Yoda from Star Wars. Ralph is also famous for retiring from Crusader (now rebranded as Urban Saints) on a number of occasions.




Jimi Hendrix died in London. He was only 28 years old.









Tom Hanks and the crew of Apollo 13 failed to land on the moon, but went on to have a major motion picture made about how they all nearly died. The USSR meanwhile successfully landed Lunokhod 1, the first remote controlled robot to ever set foot on an alien world. They may not have won the cold war, but they sure won the war of ‘Who is the coolest’ that year!


University Campus’s in the USA were getting pretty unpleasant what with the anti Vietnam War protests and the Black Panther rallies. The National Guard even shot 4 students, at which Senator Ronald Reagan said “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.”
Sheesh – how do guys like that get elected?
Of course nobody likes students, but I'm sure even the Republican Party think killing them is a bad thing.




The first wife of singer/song writer and Sheffield’s favourite son, John Shuttleworth died peacefully in her sleep.





There were 3,692,492,000 people living in the world. For February 2008 the global population is estimated as 6.65 billion. That’s an awful lot more people!
I wonder where they all live?