Sheet music cover for 'When You Smile' by Shirley Bassey

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Sheet music cover for 'When You Smile' by Shirley Bassey

published by Cyril Shane Music Ltd, after Unknown photographer
halftone reproduction, published 1974
11 in. x 8 1/2 in. (278 mm x 216 mm) paper size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Reference Collection
NPG D48339

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Sheet music cover for 'When you smile' by William Salter and Ralph McDonald. Sheet music attached.

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28 people are killed and hundreds injured in the IRA pub bombings. Two pubs in Guilford popular with army personnel were attacked with gelignite bombs, followed by a pub in Woolwich and then two in Birmingham. 17 people, known as the Guilford Four, the Maguire Seven and the Birmingham Six, were arrested for the bombing but all were eventually found to have been wrongfully imprisoned.

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John Le Carré publishes his classic spy thriller, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The novel was later made into a BBC miniseries starring Alec Guinness.

International

A one party communist state is established in Ethiopia after a committee of military officers known as the Derg depose Halie Selassie from power.
Greek Cypriot officers depose President Archbishop Makarios III in a coup d'etat sponsored by the Greek Government. Taking advantage of the situation, Turkey sent troops to occupy half the island, proclaiming the Turkish Federal State of Cyprus the following year.

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