{"id":20190,"date":"2014-09-01T08:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=20190"},"modified":"2014-09-01T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T07:49:57","slug":"hmv-presents-decades-our-top-10-films-of-the-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/hmv-presents-decades-our-top-10-films-of-the-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"HMV Presents: Decades: Our Top 10 Films Of The 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmv.com\/video\/hmv-com-presents-decades-our-top-10-films-of-the-1970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.hmv.com\/video\/hmv-com-presents-decades-our-top-10-films-of-the-1970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3546 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"quad12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/quad12a.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>To celebrate the special offers happening in hmv stores across the country over the next few weeks, each week we&#8217;ll be picking our top 10 films from each decade. Today we\u2019re picking our faves from the 1970s\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Quadrophenia (1979)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anybody taking a day trip to Brighton in recent years may have encountered the strange sight of tourists taking photographs of an empty alleyway in the city&#8217;s Lanes area, but for anyone familiar with that scene from Franc Roddam&#8217;s 1979 film that should come as no surprise. One of the most iconic British films of the whole decade, Quadrophenia&#8217;s legacy can still be seen around the streets of Brighton today. Featuring a cast that includes Phil &#8216;Parklife&#8217; Daniels, Leslie Ash, Philip Davis and Ray Winstone, not to mention some brilliant cameos from Sting and Toyah Willcox, the film&#8217;s tale of counter culture and the frustrations of modern life are epitomised in its climactic final scene at Beachy Head. The scene may have changed, but the film&#8217;s message is as relevant as ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmv.com\/video\/hmv-com-presents-decades-our-top-10-films-of-the-1970\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>hmv.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the special offers happening in hmv stores across the country over the next few weeks, each week we&#8217;ll be picking our top 10 films from each decade. Today we\u2019re picking our faves from the 1970s\u2026 7. Quadrophenia (1979) Anybody taking a day trip to Brighton in recent years may have encountered the strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,25],"tags":[1140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20191,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions\/20191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}