"If you hang on to things long enough they get back in style, like me," said Burt Reynolds when he was awarded a Golden Globe recently.

But do we really want flares, platforms and Saturday Night Fever to come back again?

Whether we like it or not, as we prepare to enter the next millennium, film, tv, pop music and style of that period have been creatively plundered.

In our feature on the resurrection of the 70s you can find out what lies behind the unlikely return to all things flared.

Is it because film makers who are now in their mid-thirties remember the period seen through rose tinted spectacles? Does every generation return to its youth for inspiration? Are we creatively bankrupt? Or are there financial motives behind the return of funky culture? Were the 70s best left forgotten?

Should the 70s have been resurrected?

I should say not! There is not a SINGLE THING (with the exception of my MGB GT) to come from the Seventies which is of any value at all.
Dan Holmes, UK

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