▸ the year you arrived

1978

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You will be 48 this year — a child of the '70s.

The song that ruled the year you arrived

Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb — cover art
#1 of 1978

Shadow Dancing

Andy Gibb

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Top 10 of 1978

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Your generation

Xennial

1978 belonged to

Andy Gibb

3 year-end chart hits

🔙 The world you were born into

The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.

🎬 Set the scene

A wood-paneled-basement afternoon, 1978: the TV was playing Super Friends, a Slush Puppie was in the kitchen, and later you'd hang the drive-in speaker on the car window.

📼 Saturday cartoons

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