Adam Faith

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Terence Nelhams, as he was then, appeared in an episode of Farson's Guide to the British (1959) performing his debut record 'Brother Heartache and Sister Tears'. He joined the cast of the music television show Drumbeat in 1959 and as Adam Faith a string of chart successes followed. In 1962 he appeared on Dan Farson Meets…, when Farson recalled him '… pretending he did not know me, studying the City pages in the Evening Standard.' Later, Faith became better known as an actor, prompting Farson's annotation on the back of this photograph 'I put him on TV first.'

Events of 1962back to top

Current affairs

After a series of by-election defeats, the prime minister, Harold MacMillan organises a drastic cabinet reshuffle, dismissing one third of his cabinet. Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe's wry comment summed up the desperate action: 'greater love hath no man than this, than to lay down his friends for his life.'
Britain suffers the 'Big Freeze' with no frost-free nights between 22nd December 1962 and 5th March 1963.

Art and science

The Beatles have their first hit with Love Me Do and release their first album Please Please Me.
The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated and creates a showcase for British artistic talent with the first performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, a wall hanging by Graham Sutherland, stained glass by John Piper, and sculptures by Jacob Epstein and Elizabeth Frink.

International

The world comes to the brink of nuclear war with the Cuban Missile Crisis. In response to the USA's nuclear advantage, the USSR sent missiles to Cuba. The crisis lasted for 12 days before a deal was finally stuck between Khrushchev and Kennedy in which the Cuban missile bases were dismantled in return for the secret removal of US missiles from Turkey.

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