Thirty years later, the story of the Seventies still symbolises a tale of Cultural Revolution, the renaissance of liberal audacity and the heady rule of the pleasure principle. It was a decade of furious energy that fuelled creative production, the consequences of which we still see in today’s political, artistic and musical modernity. There are five great icons of the era who will forever bear the hallmark of the ‘Seventies’:
Enfin femmes! Romy Schnieder and women’s emancipation
Libérez le sexe! Sylvia Kristel and the Sexual Revolution
2000, c’est demain! StarTrek the series, and pop futurism
La lutte continue! Bob Marley and Global Protest
La révélation gay: Freddie Mercury & homosexual liberation