🎶 This 1963 fundraiser was one of only a handful of times that The Beatles and The Rolling Stones performed on the same bill
🗣️“We were thinking, ‘This is it – London! The Albert Hall!’ We felt like gods!’” said Paul McCartney.
Madame Butterfly
🎤The arena was flooded with 50,000 litres of water for a staging of Puccini’s opera in 2015
A regal audience
👑 The Royal family have kept close links to the hall.
🩰 Diana, Princess of Wales, attended a performance of Swan Lake by the English National Ballet in March 1997
The Last Night of the Proms
🇬🇧 Flag-waving has always been an integral part of the famous evening, but it became a political battleground in 2018 as Remainers brandished EU flags, while Leavers had their own pro-Brexit banner.
Miss World protest
📺 In November 1970, millions watched on TV as feminist activists disrupted the beauty contest, bringing Britain’s Women’s Liberation Movement to worldwide attention.
Celebrating Winnie
🇬🇧 The hall has held many political events in its 150-year history, such as this Primrose League rally in 1953, which was attended by Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
🗣️ He made a further 15 appearances at the hall between 1911 and 1959
Prog-rock ban
🎸 Pink Floyd received a lifetime ban from the hall, following a 1969 gig that involved the firing of two cannons and a pink smoke bomb.
✖️ Three years on, pop concerts were banned completely.
🎉 It didn’t last – Pink Floyd were back just a year later
A warning speech
🗣️ In 1933, Albert Einstein spoke to a packed audience at the hall about his fears over the looming crisis in Europe, asking, “How can we save mankind and its spiritual acquisitions of which we are the heirs? How can one save Europe from a new disaster?”
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🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
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@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.
🔴President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a televised address that the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner group was “a stab in the back for our troops and the people of Russia.”
🇷🇺For Vladimir Putin, this is the end of the road.
He may just survive an armed rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner mercenaries but he will be permanently damaged and his Kremlin days are numbered.