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Lyn Paul
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back of the album
Keith Potger
& the
New Seekers.
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New Seekers
Keith Potger
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New Seekers
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New Seekers
When There's No
Love Left
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Tit For Tat!1970 marks a watershed in the music industry, with some of the most successful groups of the '60s calling it a day. In January Diana Ross abandons the Supremes to embark on her solo career. In the Summer of 1970 Simon and Garfunkel give their last concert together and in September the Beatles split up. For some it is the end of an era. For others, including Lyn Paul and the New Seekers, 1970 is a new beginning ...
Advertisement for the New Seekers' début album.
Holiday Startime
A week after they had started their Summer Season the New Seekers released their second single, What Have They Done To My Song, Ma (Philips 6006 027). The single is not an immediate (nor a very big) hit in the UK, eventually making it into singles chart at the end of October and peaking at number 44.
In November an album featuring What Have They Done To My Song, Ma is released entitled Keith Potger & the New Seekers (Philips 6308 030). In December a follow-up single, When There's No Love Left (Philips 6006 072), is released but it does not make the charts.
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| In the News - 1970 | |
| Jan | The Family Law Reform Act comes into force in the UK on 1st January, lowering the age of legal majority from 21 to 18. The 31-month long civil war in Nigeria comes to an end on 12th January when the Ibo people of eastern Nigeria concede defeat and abandon their attempt to establish an independent state of Biafra. On 14th January Diana Ross makes her last appearance with the Supremes at the Frontier Hotel, Las Vegas. On Friday, 16th January, four months after deposing King Idris in a bloodless coup, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi proclaims himself Prime Minister or Libya. Germaine Greer's book The Female Eunuch is published. The jumbo jet takes off on its first scheduled flight. |
| Feb | Philosopher and writer, Bertrand Russell, dies on 2nd February. Dr. Timothy Leary, an outspoken advocate of LSD who was standing for election as Governor of California, is given a 10-year jail sentence for possession of marijuana. On 26th February, following a night of student riots, the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, declares a state of emergency in Santa Barbara. |
| Mar | Rhodesia becomes a republic on 2nd March. On 11th March Iraq recognises the autonomy of the Kurdish people, bringing to an end over eight years of warfare. The Bridgewater by-election - the first to be held in the UK since the lowering of the voting age to 18 - is won by the Conservative candidate, Tom King, on Friday, 13th March. Columbia Eagle, a US freighter bound for Thailand, is hijacked by two crew members on 14th March and forced to sail into Cambodian waters. The Cambodians release the ship on 8th April. Tammi Terrell, famous for her duets with Marvin Gaye, dies on 16th March. Terrell collapsed in Gaye's arms during a 1967 show and was subsequently diagnosed as suffering from a brain tumour. The Open University is launched in the UK. On Thursday, 19th March the West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, and his East German counterpart, Prime Minister Willi Stoph, hold talks on improving East-West relations in the East German town of Erfurt. It is the first time that the leaders of East and West Germany have met since the country was divided in 1949. To counteract the threat from rabies, the quarantine period for animals being brought into the UK is extended to a year. |
| Apr | Canon manufacture their first pocket calculators. The dead body of Count Karl von Spreti, the German Ambassador in Guatemala who had been kidnapped six days earlier, is discovered on 5th April in an empty shack 10 miles to the north of the country's capital, Guatemala City. Apollo 13 returns safely to earth on Friday, 17th April, despite an explosion on board three days earlier. On 16th April the USSR and the USA re-convene the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) in Vienna. Production of the Morris Minor comes to an end on 18th April. On 21st and 22nd April ceremonies are held in Moscow to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth. On 30th April US President, Richard Nixon, orders troops to attack Cambodia. |
| May | Four students are killed in an anti-war protest at Kent State University, Ohio on 4th May. Campus unrest spreads across the USA. By 10th May 448 universities and colleges are on strike or closed. Two Cabinet Ministers charged with supplying arms to Catholics in Northern Ireland are dismissed from office on 5th May by the Irish Prime Minister John Lynch. On 29th May Sirimavo Bandaranaike is sworn in as Prime Minister of Ceylon. Northern Peru is shaken by a massive earthquake on 31st May. |
| Jun | Tonga gains its independence on 4th June. On the same day El Salvador and Honduras establish a demilitarised zone along their border. On 7th June The Who perform Tommy at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York - "like playing to an oil painting" quips Keith Moon. The novelist E.M. Forster dies on 8th June. The trial of Charles Manson begins in Los Angeles on 16th June. In the UK the Conservatives win the general election. Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister on 19th June. On 26th June Northern Ireland MP Bernadette Devlin begins a six month jail sentence for her part in the Londonderry riots of August 1969. US ground troops complete their withdrawal from Cambodia on 29th June. |
| Jul | A Roman Catholic Bishop, James Walsh, arrives in Hong Kong on 10th July, having spent 12 years in prison in China on charges of spying. The UK government declares a state of emergency on 16th July following the start of a nationwide dock strike. Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. Radio 1 DJ Kenny Everett is sacked by the BBC on 21st July. The House of Commons is evacuated on 23rd July when tear gas is thrown from the visitor's gallery. António Salazar, the Portuguese Head of State for 40 years, dies in Lisbon on 27th July. |
| Aug | In Northern Ireland the British army begins using rubber bullets. On 21st August the MP for West Belfast, Gerry Fitt, launches the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). On 22nd August North Korea rejects a unification proposal from the South Korean President Park Chung Hee. There is a radiation leak at the Winscale nuclear power plant on 24th August. On 31st August black and white school children attend desegregated classes for the first time in over 200 school districts in the 'deep south' of the USA. |
| Sep | IBM develop the floppy disk. On Sunday, 6th September Arab terrorists hijack four aircraft over Western Europe - a Swissair DC-8 and a Trans World Boeing 707 (both of which are forced to land in Jordan), a Pan Am Jumbo (which is blown up when it lands in Cairo) and an El Al 707 (which makes an emergency landing at Heathrow Airport after one of the hijackers is shot). Three days later a BOAC flight from Bombay to London is also hijacked and forced to fly to the desert air strip in Jordan, where it joins the other hijacked planes. The Beatles split up. Jimi Hendrix dies on 18th September, less than a month after his appearance at the second Isle of Wight Festival. The President of the United Arab Republic (UAR), Colonel Abdel Nasser, dies of a heart attack on 28th September, aged 52. |
| Oct | Janis Joplin dies of a drug overdose on 4th October. On 5th October members of the Quebec Liberation Front kidnap James Cross, the British trade commissioner in Montreal. When their ransom demands are rejected, Pierre Leopard, the Quebec Minister of Labour and Immigration, is also kidnapped. Alexander Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on 8th October. Cambodia is re-named the Khmer Republic on Friday, 9th October. On 15th October a bridge being built over the Yarra river in Melbourne collapses. 34 building workers are killed. Anwar al-Sadat is sworn in as UAR President on 17th October. British Petroleum (BP) strike oil in the North Sea on 19th October. Two oil tankers collide off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of Wight on 23rd October. 13 seamen lose their lives. On 30th October Jim Morrison of the Doors is fined $500 and sentenced to six months in prison for exposing himself at a concert in Miami. |
| Nov | Charles de Gaulle dies on 9th November, aged 79. The nest day President Pompidou declares that "France is a widow." More than 40,000 people are killed when a cyclone and massive tidal waves hit the coast of East Pakistan. On Tuesday, 17th November The Sun newspaper publishes its first Page 3 pin-up, featuring pictures of the 20-year-old model Stephanie Rahn posing topless. Ten shilling notes cease to be legal tender in the UK on 21st November. The Gay Liberation Front holds its first public demonstration in the UK on 27th November. |
| Dec | On 2nd December the House of Commons votes to end British Standard Time and revert to Greenwich Mean Time in Winter 1971. James Cross is released unharmed in Montreal on 3rd December. Electricity workers in the UK begin a "work to rule" on 7th December. Rising food prices in Poland lead to public demonstrations in Gdansk and other Baltic coast cities on 15th December. Hundreds of people are killed in the ensuing violence. The Communist Party First Secretary, Wladyslaw Gomulka, resigns on 20th December. He is replaced by Edward Gierek. |
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Boxing: Joe Frazier becomes World Heavyweight Champion on 2nd February when he knocks out Jimmy Ellis in their title fight in New York. |
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Man Booker Prize Winner: Bernice Rubens The Elected Member On the shortlist: A.L. Barker John Brown's Body Elizabeth Bowen Eva Trout Iris Murdoch Bruno's Dream William Trevor Mrs. Eckdorf In O'Neill's Hotel T.W. Wheeler The Conjunction |
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