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Subject: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 02/28/06 at 9:23 pm

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: ultraviolet52 on 03/03/06 at 2:42 am

Fran Tarkenton
SNL Cast
Howard Cosell
Reggie Jackson

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Badfinger-fan on 03/03/06 at 3:18 am

Muhammed Ali
Wilt Chamberlain
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Bobby Riggs
Billie Jean King
Tiny Tim
Mark Hamill
Bruce Jenner
Raquel Welch
Brooks Robinson

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Nostalgic on 03/03/06 at 7:22 am

A few infamous people that come to mind are:

Idi Amin
Patty Hearst
Ira Einhorn
Peter Sutcliffe (aka the Yorkshire Ripper), English serial killer

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 03/03/06 at 8:37 pm

David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam absolutely scared me...how or why someone becomes a serial killer, I'll never know.....What freaks me out is that they seem to get off on violence and death....

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 03/03/06 at 8:43 pm

Richard Nixon(that Watergate thing)
Cheech y Chong
'Son Of Sam' David Berkowitz
Bruce, the mechanical shark star of 'Jaws'
Morris the Cat
Fritz the Cat
Meat Loaf
Carole King, as a singer/songwriter
Daryl Dragon and Toni Tennile, aka The Captain and Tennille
Donna Summer
Ted Bundy
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme
Alice Cooper
Deep Purple, the band
Blue Oyster Cult
Lou Reed, as a solo act
David Bowie, who seems to reinvent himself constantly...
Pete Rose(like him or not)
Bruce Jenner
Olga Korbut
Nadia Comaneci
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs(yes they were '70s)
Mary Tyler Moore
Menachem Begin
Anwar Sadat
Jimmy, Rosalynn, and Amy Carter
Gregg Allman
Keith Emerson
Rick Wakeman
Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice
Terry Bradshaw
74-75 Philadelphia Flyers Stanley Cup winners
Elton John(Now Sir Elton)
Ayahtollah Khomeini
I forgot Jim Jones, leader of the People's Temple in Jonestown, Guyana...responsible for brainwashing 900-some people into going to the jungle, building this primitive settlement, giving him their income, even their Social Security checks in the false hope that he was their savior...and then killing them with chemically-laced Kool Aid...making serial killers like Son of Sam and Jeffrey Dahmer look tame in comparison!

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 03/04/06 at 2:43 am

Sir John Kerr - he will only be relevant to Australians in the main - but what an infamous character he became :o

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Paul on 03/04/06 at 7:01 am

Sir John Kerr - he will only be relevant to Australians in the main - but what an infamous character he became :o

Erm...yes! I'll bet!

One 'infamous' person who created most of her havoc during the 80s, but sharply rose to power during that decade...Margaret Thatcher...

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 03/04/06 at 7:12 am

Erm...yes! I'll bet!

Boo ! Hiss ! I know why your Lord Beeching is considered infamous, and he's a lot lower down the food chain than was Sir John Kerr ;D Shame on ye, sending us all out to the colony on boats and then taking no further notice of us, ha ha :P

Mooster, jaytee, BMG and the like will know what I am talking about anyhow :)

(PS Go look him up, coupled with the word "dismissal" - it is a good story) - we all still talk about it and it was over 30 years ago ::)

One 'infamous' person who created most of her havoc during the 80s, but sharply rose to power during that decade...Margaret Thatcher...

"Politician granny with your high ideals
Have you no idea how the majority feels..."

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Paul on 03/04/06 at 7:26 am

(PS Go look him up, coupled with the word "dismissal" - it is a good story) - we all still talk about it and it was over 30 years ago ::)

Oh, I'm fully aware of who he was and what he did...'tis a fascinating story, tho'...

"Politician granny with your high ideals
Have you no idea how the majority feels..."

Evidently not...as she was booted out of office about a year after that song was released!

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 03/04/06 at 7:41 am

Oh, I'm fully aware of who he was and what he did...'tis a fascinating story, tho'...

My apologies ! I read your "Erm...yes! I'll bet!" reply as meaning you didn't know who(m)? he was :-Evidently not...as she was booted out of office about a year after that song was released!

Oh well, some good came of it all in the end ;D

She always struck me as a female Malcolm Fraser (or vice versa, take your pick) :P Attitude/bearing wise, not jackboot wise...

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Paul on 03/04/06 at 7:46 am

My apologies ! I read your "Erm...yes! I'll bet!" reply as meaning you didn't know who(m)? he was :-She always struck me as a female Malcolm Fraser (or vice versa, take your pick) :P Attitude/bearing wise, not jackboot wise...

God! No-one could be as bad as her, believe me!

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 03/04/06 at 8:13 am

Oh, no, no! It was meant as an 'embarrassed' point that a 'British' official was stamping all over Australia's affairs!

Top hat and all ::) ::) ::)

(Heh! I'd like to see 'em try it now!)

Struth ! :o We'd show 'em what to do with the rough end of a pineapple, let me give you the drum, cobber ;D ;D ;D

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: TheRemf on 03/04/06 at 3:16 pm

The Infamous

Dean Corll (Inspiration for Gacy)
Pol Pot (Tyrant Extraordinaire)
LT Rusty Calley (My Lai)
CPT Ernest Medina (Same As Above)
D.B. Cooper (Perfect Mystery)
Lance Rentzell, aka "The Midnight Cowboy" (How can you be married to Joey Heatherton and do what this guy did)

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: whiteport on 03/04/06 at 4:28 pm

Charlies Angels

Farrah
Jaclyn
Kate
& Cheryl

4 of my faves from th 70s

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 03/07/06 at 7:25 pm

Gilda Radner
Chevy Chase
John Belushi and all the other Not Ready For Prime Time Players from Saturday Night Live...

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Tony20fan4ever on 03/08/06 at 6:30 am

Bands:
Grand Funk Railroad
The Sweet(Ballroom Blitz was their coolest song, Little Willie was cool too!)
Mott the Hoople
Pilot
Ace
KISS
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Marshall Tucker Band
Sex Pistols
The Clash
Bay City Rollers(yecch! soooo pre-pubescent!)
The Osmonds(yecch!)
The Jackson 5
England Dan and John Ford Coley
Bellamy Brothers
America
Yes
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
The Knack(Yes they are 70's they released "Get The Knack" in 1979)
Wild Cherry
KC and the Sunshine Band
Average White Band
Parliament/Funkadelic/Bootsy's Rubber Band
Blondie
Molly Hatchet
The Cars
J. Geils Band
Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham-Nicks version

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: KKay on 03/08/06 at 10:43 am

"By the time the 1970s rolled around, the problem had become so dire that, for the first time, law wnforcement officials felt the need to define this burgeoning phenomenon as a major category of crime. The 1970s was the decade of Berkowitz and Bundy, Kemper and Gacy, Bianchi and Buono."

Subject: Re: Famous or infamous people in the '70s

Written By: Kamiron Rose on 05/21/12 at 10:30 pm

I am absolutely shocked that Joan Jett wasn't even hinted at. So tired of people saying she is an 80's icon when she got her kick start in the 70's. tsk tsk

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