IT WAS A TERRIFIC ROMP, the long summer of Swinging London. Michael Caine kicked off the pivotal year of 1966 in March, when his name went above the title in Alfie. By August, when the Beatles released Revolver, and Pearly Kings did the Lambeth Walk down Carnaby Street, Noel Coward’s “smokily enchanted” city was the capital of the world.
Between those bookends, on 30 July, England’s footballers won the World Cup at Wembley, and
