The Wonder Years : 1970

1. George Harrison - Wah Wah
2. Badfinger - No Matter What
3. The Kinks - Lola
4. MC5 - Shakin' Street
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend
6. B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
7. Simon & Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy in New York
8. Kris Kristofferson - Sunday Morning Comin' Down
9. Syd Barrett - Golden Hair
10. Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Our House
11. Beach Boys - Forever
12. Van Morrison - And It Stone Me
13. Os Mutantes - Desculpe, Babe
14. Manu Dibango - African Battle
15. 100 Proof (Aged in Soul) - Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed
16. The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
17. Edison Lighthouse - Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
18. The Band - Rag Mama Rag
19. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
20. Canned Heat - Let's Work Together
21. Vashti Bunyan - Rose Hip November
22. John Lennon - Working Class Hero
23. Nick Drake - Northern Sky

Paul McCartney announces that the Beatles have disbanded, In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War

Edward Heath is elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the general election, The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed, The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 takes place on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Jethro Tull

We said hello to Minnie Driver, Mariah Carey, Andre Agassi, Uma Thurman, Naomi Campbell, Beck, River Phoenix & Liam Lynch ( yeah, whatever )

We said goodbye to Tammii Terrell, Slim Harpo, Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix

And the Music? No 60s hangover here…

1970