Summer of ’63: the year that gave us sex, the Beatles … and one-day cricket
A ccording to Philip Larkin, “Sexual intercourse began in 1963”. So did one-day cricket but, disappointingly, there was no mention of the Gillette Cup in his poem Annus Mirabilis. He did mention the Beatles’ first album, though, and the lifting of the ban on the DH Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. It was all happening, as the excitable Bill Lawry might have said.