Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, a trio that helped define the disco subculture of the 1970s with such hits as “Stayin’ Alive,” “Night Fever” and “How Deep Is Your Love,” died May 20. He was 62. His death was announced on his Web site . Mr. Gibb reportedly had cancer and pneumonia and had been hospitalized in London. Read full article > >

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Robin Gibb, former Bee Gees member who helped define ’70s disco subculture

Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind “Saturday Night Fever” and other hits from the 1970s, died after a battle with cancer, according to a statement on his website.

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Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees dead at 62

Mr. Gibb was one of three singing brothers in the long-running Anglo-Australian pop group that shot to fame in the 1970s.

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Ms. Summer was a five-time Grammy winner who became a superstar in the 1970s with hits like “Last Dance.”

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Donna Summer, 1948-2012: Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, Dies at 63

Ikea is investigating claims it used forced labour in former East Germany to make its furniture during the 1970s and 1980s.

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VIDEO: Ikea probes forced labour claims

Historian Dominic Sandbrook examines why in the popular imagination the 1970s are lampooned and despised as the era of Edward Heath, the decade of the donkey jacket, and the age of the Austin Allegro.

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Was the 1970s really such a grim decade?

Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.

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Cancer survival progress charted

Overall median survival periods for cancer have risen from 12 months to nearly six years since the 1970s, but with little change in some cancers, figures show.

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Cancer survival progress charted

Boarding times at airports have doubled since the 1970s, prompting airlines to try all kinds of elaborate tricks to get passengers in speedily and leave the gate on time.

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Airlines Are Trying to Cut Boarding Times on Planes

Graham Morris took photos of Janet Hodgson when she was apparently posessed by the Enfield Poltergeist in the 1970s.

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AUDIO: Photographer recalls ghostly encounter

Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

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UK seeing ‘big rise in poverty’

NEW YORK — It’s a side of Jacqueline Kennedy only friends and family knew. Funny and inquisitive, canny and cutting. In “Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy,” the former first lady was not yet the jet setting celebrity of the late 1960s or the literary editor of the 1970s and ‘80s. But she was also nothing like the soft-spoken fashion icon of the three previous years. She was in her mid-30s, recently widowed, but dry-eyed and determined to set down her thoughts for history. Read full article > >

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New book and audiotapes show new and more personal side to Jackie Kennedy

Times photographers were a presence at Aqueduct, Belmont, Yonkers and Roosevelt from the 1950s through the 1970s.

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Lens: They Had the Horse Right Here

US singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, who enjoyed hits in the 1970s with Lonely Boy and Never Let Her Slip Away, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 59.

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Lonely Boy singer Gold dies at 59

Donald Hewlett, who was best known for his role in the 1970s BBC sitcom It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, has died aged 90.

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Ain’t Half Hot Mum’s Hewlett dies