Picture the scene. It's christmas week 1964 and the Windsors are back in their castle. Charlie has done a mix tape of his favourite bands. Anne has organised some canapes and lashings of ginger beer. They've invited all their mates from Benenden and Gordonstoun. Andrew and William are a bit young so they're only allowed in till bed time. It's all Beatles and Stones until Charles puts on House of the Rising Sun. At that point the purple hearts and the contents of the detective's hip flask properly kick in. I'll leave the subsequent 16 year old debauchery in the "Crimson Room" to your imagination.

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Discotheque enters the English language: 1960-66 »
Thanks to Google news and other archive searches it is possible to date reasonably accurately when words came to be widely used, at least in printed form. I believe the term discotheque (which literal...

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