It was all change in

“I’m number one at the box office, but Hollywood considers me a bore,” said Clint.

The soundtrack of 1971 included novelty records such as Grandad by Dad’s Army actor Clive Dunn and Benny Hill’s Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West). Ernie became a Christmas number one and spent four weeks in the music charts.

George Harrison enjoyed chart success with My Sweet Lord, while Middle Of The Road brought out pop hit Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

Britain’s Got Talent judges David Walliams and Amanda Holden were both born in 1971, as well as Take That’s Gary Barlow, former Doctor Who actor David Tennant and Trainspotting star Ewan McGregor. But the world said goodbye to The Doors singer Jim Morrison, who died at the age of 27 in Paris, and French fashion designer Coco Chanel.

Crowds turned out when Rolling

Stone singer Mick Jagger married Bianca Perez Morena de Macias at St Tropez in France. The bride wore a wide-brimmed hat with a veil and a white trouser suit while Mick sported a jacket, waistcoat and floral shirt.

There were many firsts in 1971. The first video cassette recorders went on sale in shops and the CAT scan was used for the first time, on a patient in a hospital in Wimbledon.

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace was launched by Canadian opponents of American nuclear testing. They set sail in an old fishing boat called The Greenpeace to Amchitka island off the coast off Alaska to try and stop a nuclear weapons test.

The organisation is now present in more than 40 countries.