1970
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"On March 6, 1970, an explosive the Weathermen were constructing was accidentally detonated, costing three Weathermen their lives. [...]"--Sholem Stein "1970 was a point when - set against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam War - the hippie ideal of peace and love lay shattered in the aftermath of Altamont, the Manson murders and the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin."--Sholem Stein |
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1970 was a point when - set against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam War - the hippie ideal of peace and love lay shattered in the aftermath of Altamont and Manson murders and the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
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Art and culture
- Publication of Schoolkids OZ
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Music
- Minimoog
- the musical output of black America around 1970 had changed towards funk - music which was still by predominantly black artists but generally not 4/4
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Singles
- Jungle Fever by The Chakachas
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron
- Oba, la vem ela by Jorge Ben
- Express Yourself by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
- Suicide Is Painless, M*A*S*H theme
- A Love I Can Feel by John Holt
- You're the One by Little Sister
- Ali Baba by John Holt
- Groove Me by King Floyd
- E. V. A. by Jean-Jacques Perrey
- I Like London In The Rain by Blossom Dearie
- Zozoi by France Gall
- Sugar Man by Sixto Rodriguez
- Wake the Town by U-Roy
- Rain by Dorothy Morrison
- The Ghetto by Donny Hathaway
- 400 Years by Bob Marley and the Wailers
- The Frog by João Donato
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Albums
- Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow by Funkadelic
- Soul Rebels by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- Funkadelic by Funkadelic
- Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
- Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
- Stillness by Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66
- In a Wild Sanctuary by Beaver & Krause
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Film
- The Honeymoon Killers by Leonard Kastle
- Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
- Five Easy Pieces by Bob Rafelson
- White Sun of the Desert by Vladimir Motyl
- El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Colossus: The Forbin Project by Joseph Sargent
- Gimme Shelter by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
- Hi, Mom! by Brian De Palma
- Le Boucher by Claude Chabrol
- Wanda by Barbara Loden
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Guilty pleasures
- A History of the Blue Movie by Alex de Renzy
- A Summer Day by Shinkichi Tajiri
- Myra Breckinridge by by Michael Sarne
- The Lickerish Quartet by Radley Metzger
- Groupie Girl by Derek Ford
- Quiet Days in Clichy by Jens Jørgen Thorsen
- Bloody Mama by Roger Corman
- Matalo! by Cesare Canevari
- Trash by Paul Morrissey
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Short films
- "Serene Velocity" by Ernie Gehr
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Literature
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Fiction
- Il paradiso by Alberto Moravia
- The Atrocity Exhibition by Ballard
- A Humument by Tom Philips
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Non-fiction
- The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Todorov
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
- The Aesthetics of Rock by Richard Meltzer
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Art
- Tourists by Duane Hanson
- Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson
- Hatstand, Table and Chair by Allen Jones first exhibited
- Concrete Traffic by Wolf Vostell
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Births
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Deaths
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