Music from the Mersey | The story of pop music in Liverpool The Singing City How urban regeneration tore the heart out of the Singing City. CHANNEL | BBC 1 FIRST BROADCAST | 31 August 1965 SYNOPSIS With its Welsh and Irish roots, Liverpool is a musical city. In 1965, Liverpool council displaced thousands of families from the city centre, rehousing them in the suburbs. This documentary looks at the immediate effects of this migration, and at different aspects of Liverpool's cultural makeup, from Catholic and Protestant rituals to football terraces, comedians like Ken Dodd and a deep-rooted folk music tradition. Note: Some edits have been made for copyright reasons. DID YOU KNOW? As heard in this documentary, Pete McGovern's witty and self-deprecating 'In My Liverpool Home' has become an unofficial anthem for Liverpool. He wrote the first verses, to the tune of Marty Robbins' 'Strawberry Roan', in 1961; he was still adding to the song 40 years later to include such topical subjects as Paul McCartney's knighthood and the controversial 'Superlambbanana' sculpture, and it's estimated to have had over 300 verses by the time Pete died in 2006. CONTRIBUTORS David Mahlowe - Narrator Boys of St Gregory's Secondary Modern School, Liverpool - Contributor Children of St Nicholas' Infants School, Liverpool - Contributor Children of St Peter's School, Liverpool - Contributor Stan Ambrose - Contributor JW Boddy - Contributor WG Bor - Contributor Ken Dodd - Contributor N Gaddas - Contributor Balmer Herbert - Contributor N Jamieson - Contributor E Jones - Contributor G Lamplugh - Contributor John Lyden - Contributor Joe Martinex - Contributor Pete McGovern - Contributor Jack Mearns - Contributor Joseph Michae - lContributor Tony Murphy - Contributor L Norman - Contributor W Pate - Contributor WR Ramesden - Contributor PJ Ryan - Contributor WH Sefton - Contributor J Wheeler - Contributor Dean Winder - Contributor Don Haworth - Producer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2mIALHvKDk

26 October 1962 An emergency meeting of the UN Security Council discusses the Cuban missile crisis. At the UN headquarters in New York, US Ambassador Adlai Stevenson confronts Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin about missile bases in Cuba. Stevenson presses Zorin for an admission, saying 'I'm prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over'. Later, it comes to light that this is the moment just before Stevenson reveals photographic evidence of missile bases to the UN delegates. Note that this is a news feed without commentary. During the missile crisis in 1962, Adlai Stevenson (with photographic evidence) told delegates from 13 nations that the US would destroy Soviet missile bases in Cuba unless their construction was stopped. It's unclear as to what extent the Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin was briefed by the Kremlin about the missile bases before this UN meeting. Regardless, this became known as the "Adlai Stevenson moment". Governor and Democratic presidential candidate, Adlai Stevenson helped found the United Nations. He was appointed Ambassador to the UN by Kennedy in 1961. Stevenson held this office until his death in 1965. Adlai Stevenson - Contributor Valerian Zorin - Contributor ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3q-V4SzGk