Do you remember 1973? What was hot and what was not... Music: Number ones of '73  Sweet - Blockbuster
Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down Dawn featuring Tony Orlando - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree Wizzard - See My Baby Jive Suzi Quatro Can The Can 10 CC - Rubber Bullets Slade - Skweeze Me Pleeze Me Peters & Lee - Welcome Home Gary Glitter - I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am) Donny Osmond - Young Love Wizzard - Angel Fingers Simon Park Orchestra - Eye Level David Cassidy - Daydreamer Gary Glitter - I Love You Love Me Love Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody Entertainment David Bowie becomes the biggest selling artist since The Beatles, hitting the eight million record mark Trevor McDonald join ITV news as the first black news reporter Marlon Brando refuses his Oscar for Best Actor as a protest against the plight of Native Americans Stunt motor-cyclist Evil Knievel is the hero of the moment Stevie Wonder wins his first Grammy award Paul McCartney is fined $240 after pleading guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside his Scottish farm The Wombles first appear on TV Women are allowed on the trading floor of the London Stock Exchange Jon Pertwee is Doctor Who Sport Second Division Sunderland beat a top flight Leeds United team boasting ten international players in the FA Cup Final Liverpool win the UEFA Cup Bobby Charlton plays his last league match for Manchester United - at Stamford Bridge, against Chelsea Jackie Stewart wins his third and last formula One World Championship and also becomes BBC Sports Personality of the Year Billie Jean King retains her Wimbledon singles title Czech Jan Kodes wins the Wimbledon men's title. Amazingly, there is only one grass court in Czechoslovakia, which is his own! Red Rum wins the Grand National for the first time George Foreman becomes World heavyweight champion after beating Joe Frazier The sport of snowboarding is born Films The Sting – con-artist film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford which won best picture and best director for George Roy Hill at the Oscars Don't Look Now – Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie star. The unnerving image of a little girl in a red cloak wandering the streets of Venice has become iconic The Exorcist – landmark horror film starring Linda Blair as troubled child Regan MacNeil. Noted for its revolutionary special effects including the infamous scene of Regan's spinning head The Day of the Jackal – starring Edward Fox. A professional assassin codenamed Jackal plots to kill France's Charles de Gaulle Mean Streets – starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel and directed by Martin Scorsese. The tale of Tony, Michael and Charlie's lives on the mean streets of Little Italy, New York American Graffiti – starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard. A coming of age film about two college graduates on their last night of freedom before they each have to decide what to do for the rest of their lives The Wickerman – starring Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Britt Ekland. Woodward plays a detective on the hunt for a missing girl Serpico – starring Al Pacino as a morally upstanding cop who is fighting against the corruption of his colleagues. Earnt him a best actor nomination at the Oscars A Touch of Class – Glenda Jackson's Oscar-winning performance as the long suffering wife of a philandering American businessman Paper Moon – starring Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. Tatum won best supporting actress Oscar. Road movie following a young girl and a travelling con man, based on the novel by Joe David Brown Live and Let Die – Roger Moore's first outing as suave double agent 007 Enter the Dragon – starring Bruce Lee. America's first martial arts blockbuster, following a martial arts expert as he goes undercover to infiltrate a drug dealing emporium Births David Blaine, Andrew Lincoln, Kate Beckinsale, Peter Kay, Paula Radcliffe, Peter Andre, Juliette Lewis, Leigh Francis (Avid Merrion), Monica Seles, Neve Campbell, Faith Evans, Ryan Giggs, Anastacia... Marriages and divorces Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips Anthony Hopkins marries his second wife Jennifer Lynton Michael Caine marries Shakira Baksh Elvis and Priscilla Presley divorce Zappo Marx and Barbara Blakely divorce (Barbara would later marry Frank Sinatra) Deaths Noel Coward, JRR Tolkien, Bobby Darin, Fay Holden, Veronica Lake, Nancy Mitford, W.H. Auden...
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