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Dan Starkey said:
Thanks Yorkie!

Roy Wood, writer of the first song ever to be played on Radio 1, has never made a penny out of it. Why?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSX282vQSAs


very interesting story..... especially as it was a favourite of mine at the time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6960296.stm


In a promotional stunt, for the record a postcard was released with a cartoon of a naked Harold Wilson, linking him to his secretary Marcia Williams. Wilson sued, and the High Court ordered that all royalties from the song were donated to a charity of Wilson's choice:


YALTIES


Friends of D'Oyly Carte

University of Huddersfield

A Soviet poster exhibition

Liverpool Tate

Variety Club

Jewish National Fund for Israel

British Film Institute

British Screen Advisory Council

Attlee Foundation

Oxford University

Joyce Butler Memorial Trust

33 Signals Unit

Central Lads Club

Ratlingate Scout Appeal

Whitehall Choir

Victor Brusa Memorial Appeal

St Mary's Ladies' Lifeboat Guild

Oxford Operatic Society

Lloyd George Parliamentary Centenary Appeal

Bolton Lads Club

Tring Lane Workshops
 
Very good Ak, not what I planned but it is correct!

My way (7 + 7) divided by 7 = 2 then 2 to the power of 7 = 128 then minus 7 minus 7 minus 7 minus 7

Over to you Ak! <ok>
 
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