Certain Quote by David Bowie

There was nothing radically different about what we were doing musically or image-wise, and yet in L.A. there'd been total indifference, so to come…

— Russell Mael

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

— Rei Kawakubo

We didn't come here to set any fashions in music. We merely came to bring a much-needed touch of home to some lads who…

— Glenn Miller

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in…

— Nina Nesbitt

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we had inflation,…

— Annie Lennox

We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

— Nicolas Maduro

We didn't want to be another post-Libertines band singing about London and playing chords.

— James Righton

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London, so I think we've tapped into some of that. Maybe…

— Craig Finn

The Seventies was a golden era. Back then we had some incredible talent with bands like the Undertones, the Rolling Stones and artists like…

— Leo Sayer

We were wild-eyed hippies from the late '60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding '60s - that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph,…

— Nancy Wilson

There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want to do…

— James Righton

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

— Roselee Goldberg