1967

**1967**

**MCMLXVII**

* UK Prime Minister: Harold Wilson
* FA Cup Winners: Tottenham Hotspur (beat Chelsea FC 2-1)
* Christmas Number One: The Beatles - Hello, Goodbye
* Eurovision Song Contest: Vienna, 08 April
	+ Contest Winner: Sandie Shaw - Puppet On a String (United kingdom)
* Blue Peter Team: Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Christopher Trace (until 24 July), Peter Purves (from 16 November)
* Doctor Who: Patrick Troughton (Seasons 4&5)
* Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ: Tony Blackburn (from first Radio 1 show, 30 September)
* Big Christmas Day Film On BBC1: *The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance* (1962)

## Main events

* Jan: Alf Ramsey knighted, UK begins negotiations for EEC membership, Milton Keynes designated 'new town'
* Feb.: British National Front founded, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin visits UK
* Mar: Queen Elizabeth Hall opened
* April: UK wins Eurovision Song Contest, M1 expanded, Expo 67 opens in Montreal, Canada - visited by The Queen
* May: Celtic F.C. win European Cup, Sir Francis Chichester completes round the world sailing voyage, first Spring Bank Holiday in late May,
* June: The Beatles release *Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band*, Machin series of definitive stamps launched
* July: first full colour television, Welsh Language Act passed, British steel industry nationalised,
* Aug: Jimmy Hill leaves football team coaching for a career in television, Brian Epstein dies, first Late Summer Holiday (end of month)
* Sept.: QE2 launched, BBC Radio reforms go live
* Oct: *The Naked Ape* published
* Nov: outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease,
* Dec.. Beatles open Apple Shop, Concorde unveiled in France,

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### New shows

(first broadcast date in brackets)

* BBC 1: *Look and Read*, Trumpton, *The Forsyte Saga, Ask the Family, Pride and Prejudice, Belle and Sebastian* (UK debut), *Ironside, Omnibus, Magical Mystery Tour*
* BBC 2: *Face the Music, Wuthering Heights, The World About Us*
* ITV: *Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, The Golden Shot, News at Ten, ITV Playhouse, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, The Prisoner, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Tarzan.*

*full list*

### Shows ending

* *Sunday Night at the London Palladium, Emergency - Ward 10*

*full list*

### Other TV events

* *A Song For Europe* / *Eurovision Song Contest*
* Wimbledon coverage moved from BBC1 to BBC2 for colour trasnmission
* ATV wins the new seven-day Midlands licence
* London Weekend Television begins
* *Our World* airs to over 30 countries - in the UK The Beatles perform All You Need Is Love
* Colour television is officially launched on BBC2 (December)
* Final *Sooty Show* on BBC 1 (Christmas Day) - moves to Thames TV.
* HM The Queen's Christmas Message is the first to be broadcast in colour and came from Buckingham Palace for the first time.

## Radio

* John Ravenscroft returns to the UK from California, joins 'pirate radio' station Wonderful Radio London, adopting the name John Peel.
* Marine Broadcasting Offences Act (August) effectively bans all pirate radio stations.
* 30 September - The Light Programme becomes Radio 1 & Radio 2, the Third Programme becomes Radio 3 and the Home Service becomes Radio 4.
* 01 October - first ever Peel session on the DJ's *Top Gear* programme (band, Tomorrow); first Radio 1 'chart show'[1]with Alan Freeman.
* November - BBC Local Radio stations begin (Leicester, Sheffield, Merseyside)
* *Just a Minute* begins on Radio 4

## Music

UK Top 40 debuts:

* Biggest selling singles: Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me (*full list of 1967 no.1s*)
* Biggest selling albums: The Beatles - *Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band*; The Monkees - *More of the Monkees,* Tom Jones - *Green, Green Grass of Home,* The Kinks *- Sunny Afternoon,* Rolling Stones *- Their Satanic Majesties Request*
	+ Compilation albums: *Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Mantovani's Golden Hits, Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits, British Motown Chartbusters*
* Debut albums: Pink Floyd - *The Piper at the Gates of Dawn,* Scott Walker *- Scott,* Bee Gees *- Bee Gees' 1st*
* Alternative: The Troggs - *Trogglodynamite,* Cream *- Disraeli Gears*

## Films

UK premiere date, where known, in brackets

* *Casino Royale, You Only Live Twice, Bonnie and Clyde* (08 September)

## Births

* Emily Watson, Rhys Ifans, Noel Gallagher, Paul Gascoigne, Paul Ince,

## Birthdays

* **20**: Sandie Shaw, David Bowie, Clodagh Rogers, Elton John, David Essex, Marc Bolan, Jeff Lynne
* **30**: Shirley Bassey, Vanessa Redgrave, Valerie Singleton, Una Stubbs, Susan Hampshire, Barbara Windsor, Bobbie Charlton, Rodney Bewes, Gordon Banks
* **40**: Danny La Rue, Roger Moore, Ken Dodd
* **50**: Frankie Howerd, Vera Lynn, Denis Healey,
* **60**:
* **70**:

## Deaths

* Claude Rains, Joe Meek, Brian Epstein, Vivien Leigh, Joe Orton, Clement Attlee,

## See also

* 1967 Category page
* 1967 calendar

1967

## Music

scans from *Record Mirror*, November 1967