In 2020, with COVID-19 raging and much of the world locked down, working from home and communicating via Zoom and other online video conferencing platforms,…
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During the summer of 1967, The Beatles’ Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club album had shot straight to the top of the UK and US album charts. A…
Since the advent of commercial television, ratings represented a matter of life and death on the air to virtually every television star and series. As…
“John, please don’t go. They’ll kill you,” screamed one of the 500 young Beatlemaniacs who braved the London rain to watch John, Paul, George and…
On 3 April 1953, a small magazine – about 5 inches by 7½ inches – with Lucy and Desi’s new baby on the cover, appeared…
30 January 1969 The Beatles made their last ever live appearance together on 30 January 1969, putting on a free lunchtime concert on a hastily…
The Old Grey Whistle Test, That’s Life!, Juke Box Jury and Crackerjack were all made in front of large audiences in what the BBC called…
The huge success of Playboy magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, led to the creation of a chain of ‘Playboy Club’ nightclubs and resorts…
The Silver Beetles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Stuart Sutcliffe) failed an audition as Billy Fury’s backing group but drew a consolation prize…
The partnership of British comedy scriptwriters Ray Galton and Alan Simpson lasted over 50 years. They met in 1948 whilst recuperating from tuberculosis at the…
28 July 2021 The son of comedian Eric Morecambe has found a missing episode of The Morecambe and Wise Show in the family home’s attic.…
Between 1951 and 1982 this unique institution made films exclusively for those attending the hundreds of Saturday morning children’s matinees hosted in Britain’s cinemas each…
3 May 2021 A nondescript brick house at 1 Pinoak Court, Vermont South – a suburb of Melbourne, Australia – has just sold for $1.6m…
In February 1954, actress Marilyn Monroe travelled to Korea to entertain the American troops stationed over there. Marilyn was asked if she wanted to do…
The Rovers Return Inn (formerly The Rover’s Return Inn and often referred to as The Rovers Return or The Rovers) is located on Coronation Street,…
Ursula Andress walked from the sea in Dr No in 1962 and became the first of many beautiful women who found fame in James Bond…
31 December 2020 In a year of such jarring change, it is perhaps no surprise that many of us have longed to turn the clocks…
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The problem with hippies was that they were all a bit soft. All of that putting flowers in rifle barrels wasn’t going to stop people from…
16 September 2020 The Mini Moke is returning to the UK market 56 years after it first hit the road. Moke International, the British company…
