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Glasgow, 1942. The Carl Rosa Opera Company was in town to perform Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Tickets had been snapped up by local people – including many who didn’t really know what an opera was. The

It’s a retirement project like no other. Film editor Noel Cronin launched a nostalgia-themed TV channel from his home near Watford which now gets five million views

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.

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?

JANUARY 1966

STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, GLOUCESTERSHIRE