Rocky! Farrah! Carrie! Sonny! Cher! Get out your disco shoes, feather your hair, and tie up your wrap dress: 40 years after the debut of ""Charlie's Angels,"" Rocky Balboa, and film's bloodiest prom queen, People celebrates America's bicentennial year with a special issue jam-packed with photos and throwback fun. Happy 40th to Stevie Wonder's masterpiece, ""Songs in the Key of Life,"" to goofy variety shows from Donny & Marie to the singing Brady Bunch, to Blondie, Taxi Driver, ""The Bionic Woman,"" and to that Saturday morning cartoon classic, ""I'm Just a Bill."" Exclusive interviews, including Jaclyn Smith on the making of Charlie's Angels. Memories from rocker Peter Frampton, Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill, best-selling Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice and more. The headlines, fashions, trends and inventions (hello, first Apple computer!) that make 1976 a year to remember. Just ask Charo.

There were two Olympic Games, a fiercely fought presidential election and the bank-robbery trial of heiress hostage Patty Hearst. Moviegoers could choose between a sweaty, triumphant Rocky and the sweet transvestite of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Stevie, Elton and Diana towered in music, even as American punk took off with the Ramones, and disco took over the radio. Not that rock was dead: Peter Frampton had the top-selling LP. Then there was the tube. With fewer networks than there are today (and the VCR only just arriving), we watched together. Still devoted to the Fonz and Meathead, we also fell for Charlie's Angels. (“They don't smoke, hardly drink and won't do nude scenes. God bless America,” cheered another People reader.)

People Celebrates the 70s is a lively, affectionate salute to an over-the-top decade: the superstar-studded, disco-driven, walk-on-the-wild-side 1970s. Put on your platform shoes and re-live the '70s story as only People can tell it -- from Musical Sensations like Cher, Elton John, Peter Frampton and ABBA... to the "I Am Woman" vibe of Helen Reddy, Jane Fonda and Erica Jong... to the "Disco Inferno" glory days of John Travolta and the Bee Gees in Saturday Night Fever. It's all here: macrame and fern bars, hot tubs and rollerblades, smiley-faces and streaking. We've also got couples: Liz & Dick, Streisand & Peters, Woody & Diane, Warren Beatty and ... well, just about everybody. We've also got fads: pet rocks, mood rings and yellow ribbons. And we've got stars, from Bette Midler to Barry Manilow to Mary Tyler Moore. You'll climb in the ring with Sylvester "Rocky" Stallone, blast out an anthem with Bruce Springsteen, and put on your eyeliner with David Bowie. People Celebrates the 70s is a joyous, energetic blast from the past that's guaranteed to put a smile on your face and a thousand fond memories in your heart. -- Promotional radio give-a-ways in top 25 markets. -- Includes companion music CD with top-20 best known 70's songs selected by the Editors at PEOPLE. -- People is "the" authority on pop culture. -- People magazine reaches over 36 million weekly readers and is the #1 best-selling retail magazine! -- The magazine sells an average of over 50,000 copies per week at bookstore newsstands. -- Visit the 70's at BEA in June 2000. -- Promotional advertising in People magazine throughout 2000.

The 1970s may have yielded some epic disappointments, including Watergate, the gas crisis, and Disco Duck, just to name a few, but the 1970s also delivered some extraordinary delights: The Fonz, leisure suits, Star Wars, Farrah Fawcett and the biggest red, white, and blue celebration the nation has ever known. LIFE: Celebrate the '70s is a brilliant visit back in time that chronicles and celebrates the so-called &“Me Decade&” through its unique and lasting cultural mainstays; think disco music, Saturday Night Fever, The Joy of Sex, and never forget the clothes! Featuring a special section devoted to the Bicentennial Year of 1976, with LIFE's unmatched photography and a sweet, often hilarious narrative, this is a keepsake for anyone who wants to remember the '70s or experience them for the first time

The Design Museum and fashion guru Paula Reed present Fifty Fashion Looks that Changed the 1950s. The most exciting, influential and definitive looks of one of the most significant decades in fashion! The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, enterain and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to fashion, and carchitecture to graphics. It is working to place design at the centre of contemporary culture and demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance. This beautiful reference work showcases 50 iconic outfits from one of fashion's most influential and exciting decades. From the bombshell glamour of Marilyn Monroe in 'How to Marry a Millionaire' to the immergence of teenage style, via the sculptural forms of Christian Dior's New Look and Balenciaga's double A-Line, it celebrates all of the important looks that revolutionised modern fashion. With Paula Reed's lively and informative text and a wealth of fabulous photography, it is vital reading for design students, collectors of vintage, and everyone who truly loves fashion.

The 80's: If we remember correctly, they happened somewhere between disco and grunge, after platform shoes but before Friends. President Ronald Reagan sat in the Oval Office; Sixteen Candles and Raiders of the Lost Ark played at the multiplex; and, on the small screen, the invention of MTV meant that image, more than ever, could make a star. This was good news for Madonna, Duran Duran and Boy George and great news for A Flock of Seagulls. PEOPLE Celebrate the 80's takes you on a trip down memory lane with the stars, fads and moments you'll never forget.

"From Shaft to Superfly, Foxy Brown to Cleopatra Jones, What It Is...What It Was! presents a vivid pictorial and oral history of the best movies to emerge from a singularly American film movement. The book explores this film explosion. Between 1970 and 1980 over 200 films with Black themes including family dramas, mysteries, horror films, comedies, and action films, were released by both major and independent studios. The book preserves cinema history with the first book to highlight the movie poster artwork while presenting the people who created this history on screen. With the increased use of photography, this period would be the last time that top artists would draw and paint the vibrant bold movie poster images that in themselves were classics. Groundbreaking producer-director-writer Melvin Van Peebles, actors Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and William Marshall, composer Isaac Hayes, along with many other artists, talk about this body of cinema that has withstood the test of time and influenced American culture. The films are described as powerful, funky, sexy, exuberant, violent, hip, and just plain fun. They also became a target of debate as some coined the sweeping term "blaxploitation." Samuel L. Jackson, John Singleton, Reginald Hudlin, Ice-T, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Quentin Tarantino, and others offer insightful commentary into the history and impact of the films in their work."--back cover.