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Season’s Gratings

The Go-Go’s, and a couple of familiar-looking friends, in New Bond Street on 25 November 1964. Photo © Mirrorpix/ Getty Images
The picture on the record cover was taken during this visit to London

As Christmas approached in 1964, cash registers nationwide were ringing to cries of “EXTERMINATE!” Television’s latest villains were about to make their long-awaited return in The Dalek Invasion of Earth and toy manufacturers had not been slow to respond to Dalekmania. Every youngster who had spent the past 12 months walking around with arms outstretched and a cardboard box on their head could now ask Santa for their very own Dalek toy, game, jigsaw or – for the truly obsessed – pop single.

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