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Greg Dyke, now chairman of The Football Association, pictured in an earlier guise as programme director of TV-am, standing outside the station’s HQ in Camden, North London in May 1983 as he ponders introducing Roland Rat to the nation.

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Some may think it’s the filming of a new Pet Shop Boys video, but no - it’s a view of the annual Soviet May Day March in Red Square, Moscow in 1969.

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The Shadows, featuring Bruce Welch wheeling Hank Marvin on a trolley, Brian ‘Licorice’ Locking holding his bass guitar and drummer Brian Bennett tempting fate with an open umbrella, pictured together in a rehearsal space in 1963. From the Conway Picture Library (CPL) Archive. Copyright: Popperfoto/Getty Images

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Comedian and DJ Kenny Everett pictured outside Broadcasting House in London in May 1971. He had been fired by the BBC the year before and wouldn’t make it back in to the building until 1973 - before moving on to work for the fledgling Capital Radio. Found in the Daily Express Archive files. Copyright: Getty Images

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Ex-Faces bassist and Slim Chance front man, Ronnie Lane posed in front of a selection of chocolate vending machines in January 1976. A bar of Cadbury’s Dairy Milk would cost you 10p and a Kit Kat, 5p in those far off halcyon days.

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Edith and Rene Artois, played by the late Carmen Silvera and Gordon Kaye, posed together on the set of the David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd penned BBC television sitcom ‘Allo ‘Allo in April 1986.

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Cast members of the controversial musical stage show ‘Hair’, with Annabel Leverton on far left and Oliver Tobias, 2nd left, perform one of the ‘big numbers’ on stage at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London’s West End in October 1968. From the files of the Rolls Press Archive Copyright: Popperfoto/Getty Images

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English ventriloquist Ray Alan and his puppet ‘dummy’ Lord Charles look down on the motoring enthusiast, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu from the driver’s seat of a vintage automobile in July 1971.

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The late Keith Emerson, pictured left, enjoys a sauna with his fellow band mates, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer of progressive rock group, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, in Montreal, Canada during rehearsals for their upcoming ‘Works’ tour in February 1977.

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Slightly jaded looking British actors and comedians, Griff Rhys Jones (left) and Mel Smith, stars of the ‘Smith & Jones’ television series, go head to head in London in March 1985.

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Aerial view of the Post Office Tower in Fitzrovia, London, under construction circa 1964. Now called the BT Tower, it remained an official secret, unmarked on Ordnance Survey maps, until word leaked out in 1993.

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A long time before The Sweeney and Inspector Morse, actor John Thaw poses in period costume as Yorkshire wool merchant Will Olroyd during filming of the television drama series ‘Inheritance’ in 1968.

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Hungarian born heavyweight boxer Joe Bugner keeps his head down while reading an issue of the boxing and wrestling periodical ‘The Ring’ in February 1971. Bugner would go on to fight Henry Cooper at Wembley in March ’71, winning via a controversial points decision.

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A stetson hatted Bryan Ferry sees the funny side of his pre-release copy of ‘Roxy Music Greatest Hits’ in Los Angeles, California, in October 1977.

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Host Noel Edmonds updates the top 10 swap board on the set of the BBC children’s television programme ‘Multi-Coloured Swap Shop’ at Television Centre in Shepherd’s Bush, London in October 1977.

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English footballer and midfielder with Tottenham Hotspur, Terry Venables pictured in centre with Martin Chivers (on right) during a pre-season press call at Spurs’ training ground in London in summer 1968.

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