What year did the lights go out?

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Where were you when the lights went out, in New York city?

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 09:56 (seventeen years ago) link

it was round about when i told you what it was all about.

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

and under cover of darkness, I got it out

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link

if it's music trivia - its a trick question - they never go out totally - there's one that's always on anyway

― grapple (grapple), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Now, now the lights go out - there's no warning.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I know for a fact they went out in 1973, in Georgia...

― hank (hank s), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I though the blackout was in '77.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i think that's what grapple was getting at.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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.

― Vornado, Wednesday, 24 May 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

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

― Siobhan Milner (Siobhan Milner), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

oh that will be it because the answer was 1965

― Siobhan Milner (Siobhan Milner), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Siobhan Milner (Siobhan Milner), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

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