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What was happening in 1967? Top notch films of '67 were Casino Royale, The Graduate, The Jungle Book, In the Heat of the Night and You Only Live Twice. (Unusual to have 2 Bond films released in the same year.) The top selling album was Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band by the Beatles. Other top-ten albums included The Monkees by The Monkees and Tom Jones The Green Green Grass of Home.The singles charts saw some classic Number 1 hits including The Monkees: I'm A Believer, Engelbert Humperdinck: Release Me, Frank & Nancy Sinatra: Something Stupid, Sandie Shaw: Puppet On A String, Procol Harum: A Whiter Shade Of Pale, The Beatles: All You Need Is Love, Scott McKenzie: San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair). What a year!
Star grading for petrol was introduced to the UK, Sir Francis Chichester sailed around the World, Harold Wilson announced Britain will seek membership of the EEC, BBC 2 TV began colour broadcasting, News At Ten began on ITV, Sweden switched to driving on the right, the first human heart transplant was performed and the first Concorde was unveiled. The average house price in Britain was £4,050.
TV programmes included 'The Prisoner', 'Trumpton', 'Steptoe' and 'The Golden Shot'. Top toys were the Frisbee and Kerplunk.