▸ the year you arrived
1970
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You will be 56 this year — a child of the '70s.
The song that ruled the year you arrived
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Your generation
Gen X
1970 belonged to
Creedence Clearwater Revival
3 year-end chart hits
Top 10 of 1970
- 1
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Simon & Garfunkel
- 2
(They Long To Be) Close To You (Live At Féile, Tipperary, Ireland / 1994)
The Cranberries
- 3
American Woman
The Guess Who
- 4
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
B.J. Thomas
- 5
War
Edwin Starr
- 6
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
- 7
I'll Be There
Jackson 5
- 9
Let It Be
The Beatles
- 10
Band of Gold
Freda Payne
- 11
Mama Told Me (Not to Come)
Three Dog Night
The world you were born into
Top AlbumsSimon & Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water
The Jackson 5 — ABC
Black Sabbath — Paranoid
At the MoviesPatton
M*A*S*H
Love Story
On TVThe Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Partridge Family
Monday Night Football
In the HeadlinesFirst Earth Day
Beatles break up
The floppy disk is introduced
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