"Long, long time ago, I can still remember..." Staying with the Don McLean theme.
I do remember the 70ies but in a different way. I was born very early in 1971, so I was a little kid in the 70ies.
Then Europe was quite different from the U.S. I ran into all that 70ies music later when I was actively looking into it.
We hardly had any radio stations playing rock music and if we had, our parents wouldn't tune into them.
What I do remember were Abba which were being played quite frequently and they are still one of my "guilty pleasures". What we did have were German or French versions of American hits. Those were translated and rerecorded by German or French singers for the domestic market and were constantly playing on the radio. But those weren't of the "Smoke On the Water" variety. I remember a German version of "Just let your love flow" by the Bellamy Brothers and I was well into my teens before I heard the original version.
I do remember some Simon & Garfunkel too.
Our cars were boring as the energy crisis had struck us even harder and we even had days when no cars would be allowed to drive at all and you could go for a walk on a freeway. Engines would have 1.3 liters and even the top notch cars like Mercedes and such would have 2.0-2.3 Liter 4-bangers.
Cars would typically be small Opels or Peugeots, European Fords and some of the first Japanese imports. My dad wanted to be cool and he bought one of the first Honda Civics that came to our country. He was very much into that Kung Fu hype at the time (remember that?
) and so he wanted to be a part of it by buying a Japanese car.
I was 7 when my parents took me to the cinema to see Christopher Reeve as Superman.......
there was garish wall paper in my parents' house and my grandparents had a black and white TV where I loved watching "The Streets of San Francisco"....
My parents still smoked and my mom had long hair she dyed red. I remember her wearing a tight yellow sweater and a tan suede skirt, my dad wore colorful shirts with huge collars....... Just some flashbacks.
My real memories are from the eighties when I was a teenager. Although I remember the 70ies, I guess I'm more of an 80ies kid.