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Genesis
Four teenage boys at a public school in Godalming formed…
Wallace and Gromit
Making a stop-frame or stop-motion animation film is a painstaking,…
Hammer horrors
Hammer Film Productions Ltd was formed in 1946, taking ‘Hammer’…
David Bowie
David Bowie, née Jones, (1947-2016) was an extraordinary songwriter and…
The Goon Show
World War 2 brought many cultural changes, one of which…
Bruce Forsyth
Rightly dubbed ‘Mr. Entertainment’, Sir Bruce Forsyth, CBE (1928-2017) had…
The Isle of Wight Festival
In 1968, around 15,000 people paid 25 shillings each to…
Status Quo
Rock band, Status Quo, first formed in London in 1962…
The Olivier Awards
Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-89) was born in Surrey and became…
Pub quiz nights
In the 1970s, pubs were seeing their businesses decline due…
Queen
The rock band Queen was formed by lead vocalist extraordinaire,…
Pink Floyd
Active from 1965 to 1995, Pink Floyd set the standard…