1970
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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On March 6, 1970, an explosive the Weathermen were constructing was accidentally detonated, costing three Weathermen their lives. [...] "Altamont and Kent State in particular shattered the hippie illusion that if enough ... Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison reached the end of the road."--The Hippies: A 1960s History (2017) by John Anthony Moretta "In December 1970, Jonas Mekas was organizing one of his periodic festivals of avant-garde films at the Elgin Cinema, a rundown six hundred seat theater, not unlike the Charles, on Eighth Avenue just north of Greenwich Village. Although the program was laden with major avant-garde figures, the most widely attended screenings were those on the three nights devoted to the films of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The Elgin management took advantage of the hippie crowds to announce an added feature-Alexandro Jodorowsky's El Topo to be shown at midnight because, as the first ad announced, it was "a film too heavy to be shown any other way."" --Midnight Movies (1983), page 80 |
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1970 was a point when - set against the backdrop of the ongoing Vietnam War - the hippie ideal of peace and love lay shattered in the aftermath of Altamont and Manson murders and the deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.
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Art and culture
- Publication of Schoolkids OZ
Music
- Minimoog
- the musical output of black America around 1970 had changed towards funk - music which was still by predominantly black artists but generally not 4/4
Singles
- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron
- Oba, la vem ela by Jorge Ben
- Express Yourself by Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
- Suicide Is Painless, M*A*S*H theme
- A Love I Can Feel by John Holt
- Ali Baba by John Holt
- Groove Me by King Floyd
- E. V. A. by Jean-Jacques Perrey
- I Like London In The Rain by Blossom Dearie
- Zozoi by France Gall
- Sugar Man by Sixto Rodriguez
- Wake the Town by U-Roy
- Rain by Dorothy Morrison
- The Ghetto by Donny Hathaway
- 400 Years by Bob Marley and the Wailers
Albums
- Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow by Funkadelic
- Soul Rebels by Bob Marley & the Wailers
- Funkadelic by Funkadelic
- Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
- Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
Film
- Performance by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg
- Five Easy Pieces by Bob Rafelson
- Myra Breckinridge by by Michael Sarne
- The Lickerish Quartet by Radley Metzger
- Groupie Girl by Derek Ford
- Performance by Cammell and Roeg
- El Topo by Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Quiet Days in Clichy by Jens Jørgen Thorsen
- Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Bloody Mama by Roger Corman
- Colossus: The Forbin Project by Joseph Sargent
- Gimme Shelter by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin
- Trash by Paul Morrissey
- Hi, Mom! by Brian De Palma
- The Butcher by Claude Chabrol
- A History of the Blue Movie by Alex de Renzy
- A Summer Day by Shinkichi Tajiri
- Wanda by Barbara Loden
- Matalo! by Cesare Canevari
Short films
- Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr
Literature
Fiction
- Il paradiso by Alberto Moravia
- The Atrocity Exhibition by Ballard
- A Humument by Tom Philips
Non-fiction
- The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre by Todorov
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
- The Aesthetics of Rock by Richard Meltzer
Art
- Tourists by Duane Hanson
- Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson
- Hatstand, Table and Chair by Allen Jones first exhibited
Births
Deaths
