1967

[Lateralthinking1]

.....and flooding, wasn't it (and sport)? You wouldn't have had that in 1967 when the lines were altogether less fuzzy.

[EdgeleyRob]

1976 Denis Howell appointed Minister for Drought

1970 John Cleese becomes minister of silly walks

http://pythonline.com/youtube_archive/ministry-silly-walks

[Serial_Apologist]

1970 The last time I ever went to the barber's. Cost me 11/6.

[Wallace]

1977 - stagnation
1978 - discontent
1979 - Thatcher

[mangerton]

Crikey, mangerton, even I forgot that was the very year we became unofficial (as distinct from dodgy 'official') World Champions as well ...

I was hoping we might have seen Jim Baxter's performance, but no luck.......must have been an English film editor.

[John Skelton]

Getting back to Radio 3, this was the year of Walton's opera, The Bear.

And Ligeti's Lontano.

And Stockhausen's Hymnen and Prozession.

[Petrushka]

And Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 2

And, indeed, Radio 3 (as called), itself.

[Lateralthinking1]

I am surprised that no one has mentioned Julius Katchen's live broadcast of Brahms Piano Concerto No.1 with the distinguished German conductor Rudolf Kempe, the inauguration in Helsinki of the Sibelius monument, John Barry choosing Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra on Desert Island Discs - from memory it was the edition of 22 May - and the Janacek Philharmonic performing Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, as transcribed for orchestra by Ino Savini, conducted by the great man - Savini, not Albinoni - himself.

[JFLL]

I was 13 in 1967 and it was a wonderful time to be a teenager. I lost all interest in pop music just 3 years later.

June 1967, end of first year at university, exams over, lolling about in punts (yes, it was one of those universities), music in the air everywhere. Strangely enough, the music in the air was Procol Harum's 'Whiter Shade of Pale' rather than the Mahler and R.Strauss I was hooked on at the time. I think it must have been that funny but hypnotic faux-Bach organ in the background. Anyway, I think that was the last piece of pop that really appealed. Have I missed anything in the meantime?

[cloughie]

June 1967, end of first year at university, exams over, lolling about in punts (yes, it was one of those universities), music in the air everywhere. Strangely enough, the music in the air was Procol Harum's 'Whiter Shade of Pale' rather than the Mahler and R.Strauss I was hooked on at the time. I think it must have been that funny but hypnotic faux-Bach organ in the background. Anyway, I think that was the last piece of pop that really appealed. Have I missed anything in the meantime?

Yes.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... not to mention (he wrote, mentioning it) the Sonatas for String Quartet by the 24-year-old Brian Forteskew. (Or some such.)

[Mr Pee]

June 1967, end of first year at university, exams over, lolling about in punts (yes, it was one of those universities), music in the air everywhere. Strangely enough, the music in the air was Procol Harum's 'Whiter Shade of Pale' rather than the Mahler and R.Strauss I was hooked on at the time. I think it must have been that funny but hypnotic faux-Bach organ in the background. Anyway, I think that was the last piece of pop that really appealed. Have I missed anything in the meantime?

No.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No.

FRAUD, Mr Pee!

Your adolescent lascivious thoughts towards "the blonde one from ABBA" are a matter of public record!

[cloughie]

No.

Yes, I suspect though that many people of the Classical persuasion have a selective radar!

[John Skelton]

... not to mention (he wrote, mentioning it) the Sonatas for String Quartet by the 24-year-old Brian Forteskew. (Or some such.)

Of course! And Luigi Nono's Per Bastiana. And Captain Beefheart's Safe As Milk was released in 1967. And The Music of Ornette Coleman - Forms & Sounds.

Not being much more than 5 I couldn't have cared less, though. By R3 listener standards I was a slow learner .