{"id":771,"date":"2017-09-30T19:21:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T19:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/?p=771"},"modified":"2017-09-30T20:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T20:20:22","slug":"fifty-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnandkathleenshow.com\/?p=771","title":{"rendered":"Fifty Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For some reason, the past few days Kathleen has been greeting me as I wake up by singing, \u201cGet up, get out of bed, pull the covers off your head.\u201d I\u2019m not sure whether she realizes that this is a slightly adapted version of some lines from a Beatles song, and I\u2019m sure she doesn\u2019t realize that it\u2019s from Sergeant Pepper, and she wouldn\u2019t know that exactly fifty years ago today that song, \u201cA Day in a Life,\u201d was the last song ever played on the pirate radio station Radio London, when pirate radio became illegal in Britain on September 30, 1967. I was listening, at 1:50 in the afternoon that day.<\/p>\n

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It was the day after I was ordained priest, fifty years ago (which makes the opening lines of Sergeant Pepper itself, \u201cIt was fifty years ago today,\u201d the more poignant). I don\u2019t actually remember the collocation of the two events (the ordination and the end of pirate radio) but I know I was priested on Michaelmas Day 1967 and know pirate radio ended on September 30, 1967, because I checked it out on Wikipedia. I was looking to see what else happened that year. The answer is:<\/p>\n