It’s about TIME
MARION McMULLEN SPARES A MINUTE FOR FOR SOME FAMOUS FACES, AS THE NATION GETS READY TO PUT THE CLOCKS BACK AN HOUR ON OCTOBER 25
1997
1973
Illusionist and self-proclaimed psychic, Uri Geller did not only have a talent for bending cutlery, he also used his powers to stop and start clocks of all shapes and sizes. He once said: “I’ve just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances.”’
1967
DJ Tony Blackburn was had no time to waste when it came to making his early morning BBC Radio One show. The the 22-year-old had his alarm set to 5am to wake up him and he would get a phone call from the production team saying: “Wakey wakey Tony love, time to go to work.”
1923
There’s no need for alarm. Silent movie star Harold Lloyd found himself in a precarious situation dangling from a clock in a scene from the film Safety Last! The actor once declared: “The more trouble you get a man into, the more comedy you get out of him.”
1980
National Miners Union president Arthur Scargill once revealed that one of his prize possessions at his home near Barnsley in Yorkshire was a clock with a face made of coal.
1973
There was no time to waste for England World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore. The football star was presented with a grand-looking clock to mark his 107th cap for England.
A grandfatherth df clocklk maded a stately ttl backdrop for this portrait of former British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. He led the Conservative Party to victory in the 1959 election with the slogan “You’ve never had it so good”.
1989
Sir Cliff Richard called time on his role in the musical Time and handed it over to American performer David Cassidy. The show followed the fortunes of rock musician Chris Wilder and his band as they are transported to Andromeda to defend humanity and planet Earth. Laurence Olivier made a filmed on-screen appearance in it.