#1975-1979

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Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

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Cynthia Wood - Apocalypse Now (1979) / Costume concept art by Alex Tavoularis (c. 1975)

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Scream King - John Hurt

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Reggie Nalder as Barlow, in Salem's Lot (1979)

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April 11, 1979, Japan - From New York (USA), Freddie Mercury and Paul Prenter arrive in Narita International Airport, during 'Live Killers Tour'

👉 Behind Freddie there is the presence of Mr. Itami (his personal bodyguard since 1975 when Queen went to the country for the 'Sheer Heart Attack' tour)

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Frog and Toad. Possible poster illustration, circa 1975-1979

Watercolor and pencil on paper by Arnold Lobel

[thislovintime]

Photo by Matthew Asner:

“First day of school in 9th grade. I am nervous as hell because it is my first day of high school and it’s all new. I walk into my Social Studies Class and am greeted by the teacher who just happens to be Peter Tork of The Monkees. A guy I watched goofing around on TV religiously as a child was teaching me about the world. He was a tough teacher. We had a thing in his class where he would always think that I wasn’t paying attention. He would always make a point of stopping what he was teaching and say to me, ‘What did I just say`’ I would always answer him correctly and it always seemed to frustrate him. He was very smart and loved to read from Mao’s Little Red Book. I was truly happy for him when The Monkees started touring and he found success again. I took this picture in our schoolyard at New Dimensions High School.” - Matthew Asner (Ed Asner’s son), Facebook, July 1, 2023

“Since September he has been teaching English, math, drama, Eastern philosophy and ‘Rock Band Class’ at Pacific Hills, a private secondary school in Santa Monica, Calif. A college dropout, Peter got the job on the strength of his interview with Dr. Penrod Moss, the school’s director. ‘I like to hire people who are independent and creative,’ Moss said. ‘I was impressed by his personality and his ability to speak.’ […] While Tork the musician still has dreams of one day returning to the rock circuit, Thorkelson the teacher is happily planning his next course, ‘Mao, Marx and Mama.’ ‘I’m doing something important,’ he says. ‘I never do anything less than important.’” - People magazine, April 5, 1976

“For some time, [Tork] said, the students in his high school classes had trouble forgetting their teacher was once a teen idol. ‘Until I gave out a few F’s,’ he added, grinning.” - The Clarion Ledger, November 1, 1979 (x)

“I was a schoolteacher in Southern California, and I taught music as well as academics, and I really very much love to teach, and, and I think that if circumstances show me that I am not to entertain anymore or my entertaining career per se winds down, I would very, very much love to coach young entertainers.” - Peter Tork, Headquarters radio, September 1989

“[A]s a teacher, I realized that in order to teach something well you need to understand what your student is going through as they try to learn.” - Peter Tork, The Journal Times Online, August 12, 2005

On a 2018 blog post at the Monkees Live Almanac, one former student, Mark, commented: “Best high school teacher I ever had […]. Tremendous empathy.” (x)

“I taught English and social studies. And sure, the kids probably saw me as a Monkee, but they got over that in a hurry. Once I lost my temper at the kids, they’d see I was just like all the others — and I probably lost my temper too many times, since I was in an angry state back then. I have a life now, that’s the difference. I have a spiritual core. I’m not Shirley MacLaine but I believe in greater or lesser worlds and consciousness. Most people think of themselves as cut off from each other; others know there’s a connectedness that can be tapped into.” - Peter Tork, The Boston Globe, August 10, 1989

“In the mid-’70s, Tork got jobs teaching English, social studies and music at two private schools in the Los Angeles area. The first job, which he enjoyed, was at ‘a radical progressive school in Santa Monica.’ The second was at a school he describes as ‘a holding tank for budding fascists. I couldn’t hack it. I found more integrity in being a singing waiter’ — his next job.” - Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1992 (x)

More about that next job here.

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Which version of this do you prefer?

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David Bowie performing "John, I'm Only Dancing (Again)," 1974

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Mario girls cosplaying as female characters from Sekai Meisaku Douwa/Classic Tales Retold/The World's Greatest Fairy Tales (1975, 1979)

1 + 2. Princess (Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp)

3. Thumbelina

4 + 5. Cinderella

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Modern F1 Could Never / 3/?

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Monsters Of The Movies Annual #01 / Marvel Super Special #015 (1975/1979)

Art by Grey Morrow / Bob Larkin

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Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, in just 4 years it is estimated that 1.7 million were killed by dictator Pol Pot (1925-1998)

*  Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims

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Today - June 29th, 1979 Queen Story! Queen released 'Love Of My Life' bw 'Now I'm Here‘ 7" single in the UK

Taken from 'Live Killers' album

👉 'Love Of My Life' written by Freddie Mercury

('A Night At The Opera' album, 1975)

"'Love Of My Life' is adapted on stage for guitar, but it was written on the piano. I've totally forgotten the original and if you asked me to play that now, I couldn't. Sometimes, I have to go back to the music sheet, and I can't read that well either!"

- Freddie Mercury

Interview 02/05/1981, Melody Maker

👉 'Now I'm Here' written by Brian May

('Sheer Heart Attack' album, 1974)

"That was nice. That was a Brian May thing. We released it after Killer Queen. And it's a total contrast, just a total contrast. It was just to show people we can still do rock 'n' roll we haven't forgotten our rock 'n‘ roll roots.

It's nice to do on stage.

I enjoyed doing that on stage."

- Freddie Mercury

Interview 21/05/1976, Record Mirror

📸 Pic: Cover Album - Japanese Sleeve