Do you remember 1973?
What was hot and what was not...
Music: Number ones of '73
Sweet - Blockbuster
Slade -
Cum On Feel The Noize
Donny Osmond
- The Twelfth Of Never
Gilbert O'Sullivan
- Get Down
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando -
Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree
Wizzard
- See My Baby Jive
Suzi Quatro
Can The Can
10 CC
- Rubber Bullets
Slade
- Skweeze Me Pleeze Me
Peters & Lee - Welcome Home
Gary Glitter -
I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am)
Donny Osmond -
Young Love
Wizzard
- Angel Fingers
Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level
David Cassidy
- Daydreamer
Gary Glitter
- I Love You Love Me Love
Slade
- Merry Xmas Everybody
Entertainment
David Bowie becomes the biggest selling artist since The Beatles, hitting the eight million record mark
Trevor McDonald join ITV news as the first black news reporter
Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for Best Actor as a protest against the plight of Native Americans
Stunt motor-cyclist Evil Knievel is the hero of the moment
Stevie Wonder wins his first Grammy award
Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm
The Wombles first appear on TV
Women are allowed on the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange
Jon Pertwee is Doctor Who
Sport
Second Division Sunderland beat a top flight Leeds United team boasting ten international players in the FA Cup Final
Liverpool win the UEFA Cup
Bobby Charlton plays his last league match for Manchester United - at Stamford Bridge, against Chelsea
Jackie Stewart wins his third and last formula One World Championship and also becomes BBC Sports Personality of the Year
Billie Jean King retains her Wimbledon singles title
Czech Jan Kodes wins the Wimbledon men's title. Amazingly, there is only one grass court in Czechoslovakia, which is his own!
Red Rum wins the Grand National for the first time
George Foreman becomes World heavyweight champion after beating Joe Frazier
The sport of snowboarding is born
Films
The Sting – con-artist film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford which won best picture and best director for George Roy Hill at the Oscars
Don't Look Now – Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star. The unnerving image of a little girl in a red cloak wandering the streets of Venice has become iconic
The Exorcist – landmark horror film starring Linda Blair as troubled child Regan MacNeil. Noted for its revolutionary special effects including the infamous scene of Regan's spinning head
The Day of the Jackal – starring Edward Fox. A professional assassin codenamed Jackal plots to kill France's Charles de Gaulle
Mean Streets – starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel and directed by Martin Scorsese. The tale of Tony, Michael and Charlie's lives on the mean streets of Little Italy, New York
American Graffiti – starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard. A coming of age film about two college graduates on their last night of freedom before they each have to decide what to do for the rest of their lives
The Wickerman – starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland. Woodward plays a detective on the hunt for a missing girl
Serpico – starring Al Pacino as a morally upstanding cop who is fighting against the corruption of his colleagues. Earnt him a best actor nomination at the Oscars
A Touch of Class – Glenda Jackson's Oscar-winning performance as the long suffering wife of a philandering American businessman
Paper Moon – starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won best supporting actress Oscar. Road movie following a young girl and a travelling con man, based on the novel by Joe David Brown
Live and Let Die – Roger Moore's first outing as suave double agent 007
Enter the Dragon – starring Bruce Lee. America's first martial arts blockbuster, following a martial arts expert as he goes undercover to infiltrate a drug dealing emporium
Births
David Blaine,
Andrew Lincoln,
Kate Beckinsale,
Peter Kay,
Paula Radcliffe,
Peter Andre,
Juliette Lewis,
Leigh Francis (Avid Merrion),
Monica Seles,
Neve Campbell,
Faith Evans,
Ryan Giggs, Anastacia...
Marriages and divorces
Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips
Anthony Hopkins marries his second wife Jennifer Lynton
Michael Caine marries Shakira Baksh
Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce
Zappo Marx and Barbara Blakely divorce (Barbara would later marry Frank Sinatra)
Deaths
Noel Coward, JRR Tolkien, Bobby Darin, Fay Holden,
Veronica Lake, Nancy Mitford, W.H. Auden...
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