Sheet music cover for 'Streets of London' by Ralph McTell and The Johnstons

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Sheet music cover for 'Streets of London' by Ralph McTell and The Johnstons

published by Essex Music Ltd, after Unknown photographer
halftone reproduction, published 1974
11 in. x 8 1/2 in. (280 mm x 216 mm) paper size
Given by Terence Pepper, 2014
Reference Collection
NPG D48477

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  • Essex Music Ltd (active 1950s-1970s), Music publisher. Artist or producer associated with 9 portraits.
  • Unknown photographer, Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 6582 portraits.

Events of 1974back to top

Current affairs

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.

Art and science

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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