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Dib Dabs, Allegros and Loving Thy Neighbour

其他書名	Memoirs of a 70s Boy
出版	Independently Published, 2018-11-10
主題	Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
ISBN	17311335379781731133533
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rZwWyQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Black Forest Gateau, British Leyland and the three day week. Watergate, Waterloo and Fawlty Towers. The seventies. The decade that had it all - except good taste. The years when it was deemed not only OK, but actually fashionable to wear magenta herringbone flares complete with brown polyester cardy - specially short to show off the extra wide waistband on your trousers. A decade when men put on their best suits to fly to the newly formed holiday to Spain club. When everybody, including the England Football Manager, borrowed the Queen's vowels when speaking in public. Alan Peters grew up in the seventies, and he is still recovering from it today. For him, the world of Spangles and Bar Six, of Vimto and Pink Panthers (the only chocolate ever to be made from sweetened blood froth) was his sustenance, topped with Christmas Day trifles from packets and, of course, the ubiquitous (in his house at least) Spam. His culture was Dr Who and Grange Hill, We are the Champions and The Professionals. His ambition framed by seaside bingo callers and the frustrated aim of becoming class milk monitor. Alan may have grown up in a 1950s terraced council house in a suburb of a mid-sized East Midlands town, best known for its fading shoe industry and having the only two and a half sided ground in professional football but that did not stop him from having 'aspirations.' This was the 1970s, the heyday of the Isle of Wight as a holiday destination to boast about. Alan and has family ensured the genteel charm of Ventor was their home for a week of the summer every year, staying in a hotel so upmarket that the frozen fish was properly defrosted and starters featured a glass of orange juice served on a paper doily. The Rover 3500 or Triumph Stag sitting proudly on the grass verge opposite his house might have been an occasional replacement for the two seater mini van with the unstable rear doors his dad usually drove, but it was where he was heading.The seventies was the decade of closings and openings - it marked the end of Vietnam but the beginning of Thatcherism. It was a time when Britain lost its place as an industrial giant, its manufacturing industries slipping down the league tables behind Japan and Germany and its car manufacturers relegated altogether. A decade where the likes of Blue Peter and Mary Whitehouse decided what was good for people and the working classes knew their place. A time when racism inspired comedy and homophobia was still an expectation, but to Alan the decade was different. The seventies were about turning from a bespectacled six year old into a spotty teen, about unrequited love and football hooliganism. A collection for every child of the seventies, funny, nostalgic and occasionally deeply moving, Alan's memoirs bring those ten mildly tumultuous years alive. His book shows what the decade was really about - in other words: Dib Dabs, Austin Allegros and Love Thy Neighbour.