Sound effects experts create a stormThe British Phonograph Company’s Sound Effects of Britain series was one of the outstanding success stories of the 1950s, with best-selling discs such as Song of the Hedgerows, Morning in the City, Sounds of the Sea, and Factories, Shipyards and Mines.
Beatles ‘more popular than Jesus’On this day in 1966, John Lennon met his friend Maureen Cleave, a journalist for the London Evening Standard. In the course of an informal interview at his house in Weybridge, Lennon remarked that the Beatles were ‘more popular than Jesus right now’.
Moon shines onPink Floyd’s album The Dark Side Of The Moon was released on this day in 1973, and its themes of greed, death and madness proved no barrier to success.
Byron reportsDr Tanya Byron submitted her report to the Department for Children, Schools and Families on this day in 2008.
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Homosexuality decriminalised
Royal Assent was given to the Sexual Offences Act on this day in 1967, effectively decriminalising private homosexual acts between consenting adults over 21 years of age. Read on...
Dirk Bogarde (right) played a homosexual victim of blackmail