1974 – The Year Of Living Dangerously: Culture, Music and Film

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From the Three-Day week to the rise of the disaster movie, we look at the cultural and current events that shaped 1974.

Mikael Akerfeldt gives his views on the state of music in the year he was born, and we examine what else was happening in '74...

Jerry Ewing, Malcolm Dome
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