LOSE YOURSELF IN 1967

‘A LOAD OF CRAP’

Everybody else was doing it in 1967, so why shouldn’t the Rolling Stones? The wave of musical psychedelia spread as far as the bad lads from London with Their Satanic Majesties Request trying to outdo The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band. It didn’t work. Mick Jagger’s later opinion? ‘Not very good.’ Keith Richards’? ‘A load of crap.’

NO MORE HOME SERVICE

After 30 September the famous announcement ‘ This is the BBC Home Service’ would be heard no more, as Radios Two, Three and Four replaced the Light Programme, the Third

Programme and the Home Service. Pirate station audiences could tune into the new Radio One, where a groovy chap called Tony Blackburn hosted the Daily Disc Delivery.

FIT FOR A SAINT

That towering Victorian Gothic cathedral to the railways, St Pancras Station, was made a Grade I listed building following a campaign led by Poet Laureate, John Betjeman. Just in time, too – it was only ten days away from being demolished in November.

WELCOME TO JAPAN

In June, cinema audiences could at last see more of Ernst Stavro Blofeld than merely his hands in You Only Live Twice, as Donald Pleasence gleefully dispatched doomed bit-part actors into his pool of hungry piranhas. The movie was also the first 007 picture to feature a Japanese ‘Bond Car’ in the form of a Toyota 2000GT and the Pinewood volcano set cost more than the entire budget of the Morecambe & Wise comedy film The Magnificent Two.