Clothes Quote by Genesis P-Orridge

England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.

— Alan Rickman

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy…

— Ian Mcewan

By the end of the 1970s Britain was in a mess.

— Anonymous

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to…

— Julian Ovenden

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

I remember the '70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish community in Manchester closing ranks because of the IRA bombings in Birmingham…

— Noel Gallagher

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

I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I thought the 60s in London was normal, so when it stopped it was a shock.

— Rita Tushingham

I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess…

— Quentin S. Crisp

England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.

— Gerald Scarfe

Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is,…

— Paul Johnson