Octopussy and The Living Daylights unit. One of Fleming's neighbours in Jamaica, and later his lover, was Blanche Blackwell, mother of Chris Blackwell of Island Records. Fleming had previously used Blackwell's name as the guano-collecting ship in "Dr. No", calling it "Blanche". Blackwell had given Fleming a coracle called "Octopussy", the name of which Fleming used for the story. "Octopussy" was posthumously serialised in the "Daily Express" newspaper, 4–8 October 1965. Fleming originally titled "The Living Daylights" as "Trigger Finger", although when it first appeared, in "The Sunday Times" colour supplement of 4 February 1962, it was under the title of "Berlin Escape". It was
Top Pops (newspaper) Top Pops (newspaper) Top Pops, not to be confused with "Top of the Pops", was a British weekly pop music newspaper which was published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "Top Pops" was founded initially as a three-weekly publication by Woodrow Wyatt in May 1967, becoming fortnightly in November 1967 and weekly in June 1968. It was unusual for including colour content from its first issue, but found it hard to compete with its rivals, partly because it was initially based in Abingdon, not London. On 20 September 1969 the paper was rebranded. by the then incumbent editor John