What year did the lights go out?

Is no one gonna say There Is A Light That never Goes Out?

i think that's what grapple was getting at.

There was a huge blackout in NYC in the summer of 1965, the first big power grid failure in a major city. Urban (and not-so-urban) folklore had it that the birth rate spiked nine months later, etc. etc. It was national news, lots of Carson jokes, comedy skits, other pop culture references. Probably a movie, too, but I'm not sure.

There was another city-wide blackout in 1977. I was there, sitting in a theater, watching the final confrontation between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi in this out-of-left-field movie that people were starting to talk about. I walked uptown about four miles; the east side was like an endless what-was-then-called singles bar. Restaurants were giving away their food, bars were selling drinks. Everyone was outside because automobile headlights provided light. EVERYone was trying to score.

it was a trivia question, on a music channel, but i dont know if the question was music related

There was a huge blackout in NYC in the summer of 1965, the first big power grid failure in a major city. Urban (and not-so-urban) folklore had it that the birth rate spiked nine months later, etc. etc. It was national news, lots of Carson jokes, comedy skits, other pop culture references. Probably a movie, too, but I'm not sure.

oh that will be it because the answer was 1965

oh what vornado said will be right because the answer was 1965

1971, when Dana had a Top 20 hit with her song "Who Put The Lights Out?" in the middle of a postal strike.