Equally, there was often room for records to scale the higher echelons of the Fab 40 without entering the sales charts at all (for example, the Settlers' Nowhere Man in March 1966 [2]).
This format largely mirrored that of the BBC's Pick of the Pops, which Alan Freeman had presented each Sunday on the Light Programme since 1961.
Radio London closed on 14 August 1967 following enactment of the Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 that, in effect, outlawed such stations.
[6][7][8][9] When the BBC opened its own "pop" station Radio 1 in September 1967, its sales-based top 30 chart was known informally for a time as the "Fun 30",[10] no doubt in imitation of London's "Fab 40".
[11] Complete charts are available on the Radio London website, from 24 January 1965, five weeks after the station opened, till the final Fab 40, 6 August 1967 and are regularly updated with new information and input from featured artists.