The ’70s: The Taste-Free Decade.

There are many reasons to abhor the 1970s and its gross excesses, theological, political, and cultural, but there are those of a certain age who actually wax nostalgic over that awful decade. One of them was your Tatler’s former superior in the music industry, who understandably, as a student of the Frankfurt School of Economics and the likes of George Soros, embraced decay with a passion.

Then again, it’s difficult to imagine anyone waxing nostalgic over the above. Let it serve therefore as warning: it happened once, it can happen again.

With thanks to James Likeks.