The Seventies Unplugged

If the 1960s was the decade of peace, love and understanding, the 1970s was the decade of glitter and glam rock. Or was it?

Gerard DeGroot peels away the polyester to examine what really happened in a decade that began with the death of Jimi Hendrix and ended with Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in 10 Downing Street.

As the Sixties chickens came home to roost, the Seventies became an era when dreams died, hope was thwarted, problems long ignored finally exploded, and optimism repeatedly crushed gave way to frustration.

Incisive, iconoclastic and hugely entertaining The Seventies Unplugged is popular history at its best.