1975This page provides a snapshot of Lyn Paul's career from 1975. To find out what else was happening in 1975 select any of the following options:
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Lyn Paul
Give Me Love
(cassette cover).
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Lyn Paul
pictured on
the back cover
of her album
Give Me Love.
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Jack Jones
pictured on the
front cover of his
1975 UK tour
programme.
It Oughta Sell A Million!Lyn Paul releases three singles in 1975 - Love (Polydor 2058 552), It Oughta Sell A Million (Polydor 2058 602) and Here Comes That Wonderful Feeling (Polydor 2058 655). Lyn's first solo album, Give Me Love (Polydor 2383 340), is also released.
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Lyn also appears at a variety performance to mark the opening of the Greenwood Theatre, London's newest theatre, situated near London Bridge behind Guy's Hospital. The show is attended by Princess Alexandra, who officially opens the theatre, and her husband Angus Ogilvy. The proceeds from show go to the Entertainment Artistes' Benevolent Fund
Lyn opens the show with The Trolley Song and closes her set with a Neil Sedaka Medley. Looking back on the tour eleven years later, Lyn revealed how important it was to her:
There are rumours of an affair between Lyn and Jack Jones, which Lyn later referred to in interviews with the News of the World and The Sun.
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| In the News - 1975 | |
| Jan | On 4th January Khmer Rouge guerrillas attack the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. On 5th January 13 people are killed when a freighter hits the Tasman Bridge. Part of the bridge collapses into the Derwent River. The ship sinks. Teenager Lesley Whittle, who was left £82,000 in her father's will, is kidnapped from her home in Highley, Shropshire on 14th January. Her body is found in a drain shaft on 7th March. Angola gains independence from Portugal on 16th January. Dr. Donald Coggan is enthroned as the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury. The price of TV licences in the UK is increased to £18 for a colour set and £8 for a black and white set. |
| Feb | On 11th February Margaret Thatcher is elected leader of the Conservative Party. P.G. Wodehouse dies on St. Valentines' Day, aged 93. New £10 notes are issued in the UK, with a portrait of the Queen on one side and Florence Nightingale on the other. On Friday, 28th February 42 passengers and the driver of a tube train are killed at Moorgate station in the worst-ever accident on London Underground. It takes rescue workers five days to recover all of the bodies. |
| Mar | Charlie Chaplin is knighted by the Queen at Buckingham Palace. On 7th March the United States carries out a nuclear test in the Nevada desert. Four days later the USSR performs a nuclear test in eastern Kazakhstan. Tammy Wynette and George Jones get divorced on 13th March, just two months before Wynette tops the UK singles chart with Stand By Your Man. Her follow-up hit is the more aptly-titled D.I.V.O.R.C.E. Susan Hayward dies on 14th March. Ethiopia ends over 3,000 years as a monarchy on 21st March. On 25th March King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is assassinated in Riyadh by his nephew Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed. Tommy premiers in London on 26th March. |
| Apr | 99 Vietnamese orphans are brought to the UK on 6th April aboard a Boeing 747 chartered by the Daily Mail newspaper. Ritchie Blackmore leaves Deep Purple on 7th April to form his own group, Rainbow. Josephine Baker dies in Paris on 11th April, aged 68. Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh on 17th April, following the US withdrawal from Cambodia five days earlier. The President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigns on 21st April. Terrorists blow up the West German Embassy in Stockholm when their demand for the release of 26 jailed members of the Baader-Meinhof gang is refused. At a one-day conference held on Saturday, 26th April the UK Labour Party votes by almost 2-1 in favour of leaving the European Economic Community (EEC). Elections are held in Portugal for the first time in 50 years. North Vietnamese troops capture Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, on Wednesday, 30th April. US citizens and other foreign nationals are evacuated to waiting navy ships. Saigon is immediately renamed Ho Chi Minh City. |
| May | On 5th May the British social services secretary Barbara Castle announces the government's intention to abolish pay beds (where patients pay for advantages such as privacy) in National Health Service hospitals. On 17th May Elton John is awarded a Platinum disc for sales in excess of 1 million of his new LP Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy. The LP is the first album to achieve Platinum status on the day of its release. On 7th June it becomes the first album to enter the US chart at number 1. Sculptor Barbara Hepworth dies in a fire at her studio in St. Ives on 20th May. |
| Jun | The Suez canal is reopened by President Sadat on 5th June. In the first referendum in British history 67.2% of UK electors vote to stay in the European Economic Community (EEC). On Monday, 9th June proceedings in the House of Commons are broadcast on the radio for the first time. The Secretary of State for Industry, Tony Benn, is the first minister to be questioned live on air. The Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, is convicted of electoral fraud on 12th June. Lord Lucan, who had been missing since 7th November 1974, is declared by an inquest jury to have murdered Sandra Rivett, the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children. The verdict, returned in his absence on Thursday, 19th June, is the last of its kind to be delivered by an inquest jury - the procedure was outlawed by the 1977 Criminal Law Act. The first oil from the British sector of the North Sea is brought ashore at the BP refinery on the Isle of Grain. Mozambique gains independence from Portugal on 25th June. Cher and Gregg Allman get married on 27th June. The folk singer Tim Buckley dies from a drug overdose on 29th June. |
| Jul | Denis Hills, who had been sentenced to death for treason, is released from prison in Uganda. American and Russian astronauts shake hands in space after the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft make a successful docking. A Chorus Line premiers on Broadway on 25th July. On 29th July Gerald Ford visits Auschwitz and so becomes the first US President to visit a Nazi concentration camp. |
| Aug | Six men from Northern Ireland are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Birmingham pub bombings of the previous November. An all-party Committee of the House of Commons criticises the UK government's plan to invest £1,400 million in the ailing car company British Leyland. The Bangladeshi leader, Sheikh Mujib, is killed in a coup. Talks between the Rhodesian government and the African National Council collapse acrimoniously on 26th August. |
| Sep | Civil war rages in Beirut. Two people are killed and 63 injured when a bomb explodes in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in central London on Friday, 5th September. The IRA later claims responsibility. The kidnapped American newspaper heiress, Patty Hearst, who had joined her captors, the Symbionese Liberation Army, is arrested on Thursday, 18th September, after a year on the FBI's "most wanted" list. At the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool delegates vote by two to one in favour of the UK government's anti-inflation policy of limiting pay rises to £6 per week. The US President, Gerald Ford, escapes two assassination attempts. |
| Oct | Dutch industrialist, Tiede Herrema, is kidnapped in Northern Ireland. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton re-marry on 10th October. On Wednesday, 15th October two members of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) are sentencted to 35 years in priosn for murdering three members of the Miami Show Band in Belfast. Leonard Matlovich, a sergeant in the US Air Force and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, is discharged on Wednesday, 22nd October after appearing on the front cover of Time magazine publicly declaring his homosexuality. Dutch Elm Disease spreads across the UK killing millions of elm trees. In Spain General Franco hands over power to Prince Carlos on 29th October. |
| Nov | On Monday, 3rd November the Queen officially opens the first North Sea oil pipeline, which runs for 130 miles from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth. The Royal Pavilion at Brighton is badly damaged by fire. Tiede Herrema is released unharmed. His kidnappers surrender to the police. On 11th November the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, is dismissed form office by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. General Franco, the ruler of Spain for 39 years, dies on Thursday, 20th November, aged 82. Two days later King Juan Carlos reclaims the Spanish throne. Angola gains its independence from Portugal. Surinam gains its independence from the Netherlands. Ross McWhirter, co-editor of the Guinness Book Of Records, is shot dead outside his Enfield home on Thursday, 27th November, three weeks after offering a £50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of terrorist suspects. Robert Muldoon becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand following the Nationalist Party's victory in the general election. |
| Dec | On 2nd December South Moluccan terrorists hijack a train at Beilen in Holland. The driver and two passengers are killed. Two days later another group of South Moluccans invade and take control of the Indonesian Consulate in Amsterdam. Indonesian troops invade East Timor on 7th December. On 11th December an Icelandic gunboat patrolling the North Atlantic opens fire on an unarmed British fishery support vessel. In London on 12th December the Balcombe Street siege ends peacefully when four IRA gunmen, who had been holding hostage a middle aged couple, surrender to police. Following the Liberal-Country Party's landslide victory in the Australian general election, Malcolm Fraser takes over from Gough Whitlam as Prime Minister. Political rival Bob Hawke describes him as "the cutlery man of Australian politics. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, speaks with a forked tongue, and knifes his colleagues in the back." In the UK the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay Act come into force on 29th December. On 31st December the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves the UK's application for loans totaling £975 million. |
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| Sporting Heroes |
BBC Sport BBC Sports Personality of the Year: David Steele |
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Cricket: Australia win the Ashes but are beaten by the West Indies in the first Cricket World Cup final. |
| Page-turners |
Man Booker Prize Winner: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Heat And Dust |
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