The Hollywood publicity machine was always eager for opportunities to keep its stars at the front of our minds, so what could be better than a festive photoshoot giving us a glimpse into their glamorous lifestyles?

It was 1965 with bells on, the year the singles charts got wilder, heavier, druggier. Twelve months of traumas, transgressions and transvestism, experiments and explosions. How 20 revolutionary platters from 1966 revealed "the secrets of space and time". "Intensity was the keynote," says JON SAVAGE.

JANUARY 1966

THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER

BORN Edna Mae Durbin in 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Deanna’s parents were British-born and moved to California when she was a child. A natural singer, she had a voice described as a “sweet sop

FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER