The challenges and changes that have come with the Coronavirus pandemic turn thoughts to times of crisis in the past. Here, Manchester Evening News chief reporter Neal Keeling looks back at the 1970s - and the sounds that provided an escape from the political and personal tumult of his schooldays. It was the 70s and both nationally and turmoil was on the horizon.
Crippling union strikes, power cuts, and eventually the winter of discontent saw UK society doom laden. It also saw the end of my parents' marriage.
The fall apart came in 72 and the decree absolute in 74. At a time when being in a one parent family and divorce, still, incredibly, carried a stigma, the impact on a shy 14-year-old was shattering.