America 1979......
The previously unknown peanut farmer, Jimmy Carter was running the country, The Knack’s ‘My Sharona’ topped the Billboard charts and Mork & Mindy, Different Strokes and The Dukes of Hazzard were the top viewed TV programmes.
Technology became smaller as Sony released the $200 Walkman, leg warmers were in vogue and Clint Eastwood’s ‘Escape from Alcatraz’ packed them in at the cinema. 1979 was the birth year of the singer Pink and the year we said a sad farewell to a Hollywood legend and the greatest cowboy of all time, John Wayne.