1975 - Long Hot Summer (Number One)

The Rams top the League without Brian Clough
Neilson, the Black Panther kills poor Lesley
Thatcher is the new lead Conservative
The Moorgate tube crash, death of a Saudi
King, Lebanese are fighting civilly
North Vietnam finally takes Saigon
In neighbouring Cambodia, the monarchy
Uses the Khmer Rouge to restore the throne
But they don't, they just kill, back to Year One
The London Hilton bombed. Patty Hearst's tough
But the cops get her and she lives. Ali
Beats Smokin' Joe in Manila. In Spain
Franco dies. Queen rhapsodise. Woody's Love
And Death. Hot summer, Devon holiday

1974 - Haile and farewell

Half-days at school, OPEC oil embargo
Lasts til the spring, til Abba's Waterloo
Portugal's people say it's time to go
To those stuffy old men who've ruled for too
Long, and won't leave their colonies. The U
VF bomb Dublin, and Monaghan. It's
The World Cup in Germany - England, you
Stayed home, knocked out by Poland, but the Scots
Are there - the eventual winners, the Krauts
Ali beats Foreman in Zaire, Turks flow
Into Cyprus, Nixon resigns - crooks do
Get away with it sometimes - and Ford trips
(Literally) into the hot seat. Bombs blow
Up Birmingham... Jaws, Tinker Tailor too

1973 - Well oil be damned

UK, Ireland, Denmark join EEC
Elvis live from Hawaii via satellite
US ends its war, Paris Peace Treaty
World Trade Centre and Sears Tower reach full height
Skylab launched, but more leaks on Watergate
Deep Throat and White House Tapes start spilling beans
Allende suicide and Pinochet
In US-backed coup in Chile - oh, please
Kissinger Sec of State, Agnew resigns
Ford new VP, Yom Kippur War, Sinai
Back to Egypt, Sadat more westernised
From now til his death. Slow, the oil pipelines
As crude doubles in price, OPEC turn the
Screw. Sydney Opera House. Blanco's demise

1972 - Glam shock

Bloody Sunday in Derry, the Claudy
And Belfast bombings, retaliation
Aldershot's innocent deaths lead to the
Official IRA ceasefire. Nixon
Visits an ill Mao and Chou, but undone
By Watergate, the original 'gate'
Who paid for the break-in and spying on
The Democrats? Tricky Dicky does beat
McGovern, though. Asians told to get out
Of Uganda by Amin. Atari
Video game 'Pong'. The Munich Games go on
Though terrorists kill Israeli athletes
Last Moon landings confirm the place seems dry
Second Cod War, and Oz PM Whitlam

1971 - The view from space

In Glasgow, Rangers / Celtic fans are crushed
Western oil companies talk with OPEC
Apollo 14 and 15 have splashed
Back down. East Pakistan a flooded wreck
And West Pakistan occupies, but next
Independence is declared, with Indian
Help later on. Soyuz astronauts dock
With Salyut 1 space station, the Russian
Astronauts dying on the way back down
Trouble in Turkey, the Ceylonese clash
Arsenal win the double, UN accepts
Communist China rather than Taiwan
Jimbo dies in his bath, fierce rioters
In Northern Ireland and Attica's bricks

1970 - All kinds of everything

Biafra loses, Jagger's cannabis
Black Sabbath's two LP's, Jeff MacDonald
Kills wife and daughters, pretends it's hippies
Rhodesia alone, SA in the cold
Dana wins Euro Song, Brazil win World
Cup in Mexico, Beatles break up, 'Nam
Slows down, Apollo 13 moon trip stalled
Cambodia invaded, Kent State deaths on
Campus, Peru earthquake, East Pakistan
Cyclone flood deaths, Heath beats Wilson surprise
Isle of Wight, Hendrix and Joplin both fall
Black September in Jordan, Lebanon
Baader-Meinhof rob banks, and Nasser dies
Quebec, Assad, Mishima, Basques, Poland

1969 - All in living colour

March from Belfast to Derry and take part
In the grand old Battle of the Bogside
Burn yourself in Prague for the lack of heart
Your people show, preferring just to hide
Read 'The Godfather' - Mary Jo has died -
Pompidou's President, land on the Moon
And make Charles Prince of Wales, fill kids with pride
Stonewall riots, Manson murders, the tune
Is Helter Skelter, Get Back, Something. Soon
Asia can fight by itself, says Richard
Nixon, and see Russia and China fight
Gaddafi comes, Ho Chi Minh goes, Python
And Sesame Street on TV, which starts
Regularly in colour, all three sides