Dire Straits
To be ‘in dire straits’ means to be in a poor state, but many people would instead think of the massively successful […]
To be ‘in dire straits’ means to be in a poor state, but many people would instead think of the massively successful […]
Sir Tom Jones, OBE, was born into a mining family in Pontypridd, South Wales, in 1940 as Thomas Woodward. He was soon […]
Two graduates from Oxford (Michael Palin and Terry Jones), three from Cambridge (John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Eric Idle) and one from […]
The Eurovision Song Contest was first staged by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) in 1956 in Switzerland. The UK had its first […]
Sir Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) was an award-winning star of silent films in his trademark character, ‘the tramp’. He drew on his own […]
Sir Elton John, CBE, was born in 1947 in Middlesex and is an award-winning, record-breaking musical phenomenon. Not only was he playing […]
‘Come Dancing’ first appeared on British TV screens in 1949 ~ a time when people were ready to engage in light-hearted pastimes […]
Cropredy is a village in Oxfordshire which plays host every August to a music festival also simply known as ‘Cropredy‘, though its […]
Reality TV, the docu-soap and the fly-on-the-wall documentary can all thank the BBC’s 1974 television programme ‘The Family’ for their emergence. Producer […]
Born in Surrey in 1919 as Margaret Hookham, Dame Margot Fonteyn‘s mother was key to her future success. She put her in […]
The Beatles were a musical phenomenon in the 1960s that changed the pop music genre forever. There are many superlatives that can […]
The BRIT Awards were first devised for the year of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee (25 years on the throne) by the Britannia […]
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