The Rock 'n' Roll YearsSeason 3
Music from a particular year is played and seen against clips of news and events of the time.
Where to Watch The Rock 'n' Roll Years • Season 3
9 Episodes
- 1972
E11972British coal miners stage their first national strike since 1926; unemployment figures breach the one million mark; Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath signs the European Common Market Treaty; thirteen civilians are shot dead in Londonderry, Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday; the IRA bomb the army barracks at Aldershot in retaliation; Arab terrorists attack the Munich Olympics; Sir Francis Chichester and the Duke of Windsor die. - 1973
E21973The Vietnam War ends; the IRA continues its bombing campaign; Watergate begins; the Cod War between Iceland and Britain ends; Lord Lambton resigns after a scandal; the Arab/Israeli war results in oil shortages and huge price increases in the West; the Oil Crisis combined with a work to rule by miners and power workers, results in the 'three day week'. - 1975
E41975Britain's referendum asks whether Britain should stay in the Common Market; the USA finally pulls out of Vietnam; Margaret Thatcher, the new Conservative leader sports her Eurojumper; Triumph car manufacturers are saved; the car industry reels; Britain banks on North Sea oil; the Bay City Rollers and Rollermania come to town; JAWS movie fever strikes. - 1976
E51976Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe resigns; Britain swelters under a heatwave; peanut farming becomes a thing of the past for America's president-elect, Jimmy Cartter; British mercenaries fight in Angola; there are riots in Soweto in South Africa; the Notting Hill Carnival erupts into violence; the heatwave results in water-rationing; John Curry wins a gold medal for skating at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. - 1978
E719781978. The year Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. Rhodesia's prime minister Ian Smith and 3 black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule and The Who's Keith Moon dies. Music from Kate Bush, Ian Dury, Blondie and The Police. - 1979
E819791979. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile and creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution. The Queen makes a historic visit to the Gulf states. Pope John Paul II arrives in Eire. Mother Theresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan. Music from Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Earth Wind & Fire and The Emotions, The Tourists, Tubeway Army, The Police, and The Specials.
