Fads,+Fashion,+Television,+and+Music+in+the+1970's

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There were lots of fads, fashion, television, and music in the 1970's. Some of the big fads in the 1970's were mood rings, lava lamps, rubik's cube, sea monkey, smiley face stickers, and pet rocks. One of the craziest fads was streaking nude through public places. Most families vacationed in station wagons and alot of people wanted an RV. Another popular fad of this time was telephone booth stuffing. It was generally popular among college students and they would squeeze themselves into a telephone booth, one right after another, until no more people could fit in.

When it came to fashion for men, most of them had shoulder length hair. Men and women wore non-traditional clothing. Non-traditional clothing was things like hip huggers, colorful patches, hot pantsm platform shoes, earth shoes, clogs, t-shirts and gypsy dresses. Knits and denims were popular fabrics worn. Leisure suits for men also became popular and women were fashionable in everything ranging from ankle-length grandmother dresses to hot pants and micro-miniskirts. Women also wore traditional men's clothing such as derby hats, tweed jackets, and neckties worn with baggy pants or skirts.

The seventies was filled with movies and television. New technologies such as Panavsion and Dolby sound brought back movies. George Lucas's Star Wars was one of the highest grossing films ever. Other popular movies were Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Poseidon Adevnture, and Airport. Sylvester Stallone's Rocky gave a taste of the underdog coming to the top. Other populars movies were The Godfather, Jaws, Exorcist, Kramer vs. Kramer, American Graffiti and Grease. Television shows also were a big thing in the 1970's. One of the most popular shows was All in the Family, which had plots based on issues like abortion, race, and homosexuality. Other popular shows were Saturday Night Live, Roots, Happy Days, The Brady Bunch, and for all the youngsters, Sesame Street.

Music in the 1970's was mainly about all forms of rock like soft, hard, country, folk, punk, shock and the dance craze disco. Rock & roll  itself had mainly became meaningless due to the breakup of the Beatles and the death of Elvis Presley. Among the most popular music artists were people and bands like, Aerosmith, the Bee Gees, David Bowie, Jackson Browne, Alice Cooper, Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Elton John, Led Zepplin, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Three Dog Night, and The Who. There were also to popular reggae bands and artists, which were the Carpenters and Bob Marley.