M.O.D.: a number owing a great debt to the phenomenon of synchronicity
Reportedly, Stavely Makepeace alter ego Lieutenant Pigeon wrote a song in protest at the introduction of decimalised currency to the UK on 15th February, 1971. It took quite a while to reach UK number one, via its use on a Belgian current affairs programme (eventually topping the chart from 14th October, 1972 for 4 weeks). Coincidentally, the UK had introduced the 50p coin, in anticipation of decimalisation 3 years previously, on 14th October, 1969.
However, in later years, 57 year old pianist Hilda Woodward revealed her involvement had been on the understanding that the song related to her concerns about the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signing a mutual defence treaty…… on 15th February, 1950, when Hilda, in her mid thirties, feared another global conflict, having survived the severe bombing on her home town of Coventry in 1940. She wrote to the Ministries of Defence in a variety of nations, receiving no replies.
The original title of the song Mouldy Old Dough was M.O.D.
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