PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - ELTON JOHN - 1975

PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM – Elton John

#1 April 12th, 1975

NEWS

• The Viet Nam war officially ended as the communists capture the south.
• President Ford escapes 2 assassination attempts!
• Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft take off for US-Soviet link-up in space.
• The Edmund Fitzgerald would sink into immortality to the bottom of Lake Superior.  
• Microsoft is founded.
• ABC, CBS and NBC agree to create a "family hour," an early evening time slot that is free of violence and sex.

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Jaws” “Rocky Horror Picture Show” “Dog Day Afternoon” & “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”.
• TV: Saturday Night Live premieres on NBC. George Carlin hosts the first show, “Barney Miller” & “Welcome Back Kotter” also premier.
• The “Betamax” would change the way we watched TV.
• Atari’s home version of “Pong” was the hot video game.
• Altair introduces Altair MITS 8800, first personal computer.

DEAD

• Aristotle Onassis
• Rod Serling
• Ozzie Nelson

#1@1

• Tennis Great Billy Jean King & her Philly team would be the inspiration for Philadelphia Freedom.
• The flip side of "Philadelphia Freedom" has "I Saw Her Standing There." It's the only recorded live duet between Elton and John Lennon.
• Elton John “Philadelphia Freedom” 
• The  #1@1 from April 1975