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Sheet music cover for 'Alfie' by Cilla Black and the cast of 'Alfie' (Cilla Black (Priscilla White); Shelley Winters; Julia Foster; Millicent Martin; Vivien Merchant; Jane Asher; Sir Michael Caine; Eleanor Bron; Shirley Anne Field)

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Sheet music cover for 'Alfie' by Cilla Black and the cast of 'Alfie' (Cilla Black (Priscilla White); Shelley Winters; Julia Foster; Millicent Martin; Vivien Merchant; Jane Asher; Sir Michael Caine; Eleanor Bron; Shirley Anne Field)

published by Famous Chappell Ltd, after Unknown photographers
halftone reproduction, published 1966
11 in. x 8 1/2 in. (278 mm x 215 mm) paper size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Reference Collection
NPG D48361

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Sheet music cover for 'Alfie' by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Sheet music attached.

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Current affairs

The English football team wins against West Germany at the World Cup Final in Wembley.
144 people, including 116 children, die in the Aberfan disaster when a colliery waste tip slides down a mountain in Wales.
Ian Brady and Myra Hindly are sentence to life imprisonment for the brutal Moors Murders.

Art and science

Tom Stoppard's first play Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead premiers. This absurdist play uses two minor characters from Hamlet to explore the existential themes of free will verses determinism and the futility of language.
Seamus Heany publishes his first volume of poems, Death of a Naturalist.

International

The Cultural Revolution is launched in China in order to bring Chinese culture and society in line with communist ideals. It was also, however, an attempt by Mao Zedong to regain control of the country after the mistakes of the Great Leap Forward.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Arthur Michael Ramsey meets Pope Paul VI, the first official meeting between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches for 400 years.

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