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5 Reasons MTV In The 1980s Was ‘Totally Awesome’

5 Reasons MTV In The 1980s Was ‘Totally Awesome’

  MTV has been around for about 33 years, and for Generation Xers who were ...
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Dreaming with Your Eyes Wide Open: The 4 Most Underrated David Lynch Films

Dreaming with Your Eyes Wide Open: The 4 Most Underrated David Lynch Films

  IN many of his films, director David Lynch demonstrates an unnerving capacity to tap into ...
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Funky Science Textbook Illustrations From The 1970s

Funky Science Textbook Illustrations From The 1970s

  HAVE a look at a 1977 grade school science textbook.  Each page features distinctly seventies children ...
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John Cleese Writes To A Monty Python Fan In 1983

John Cleese Writes To A Monty Python Fan In 1983

At 14 Matt Hyde asked Monty Python's John Cleese if he had a fan club. Here’s his ...
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Classic Sleazy Reads: The Christina Books

Classic Sleazy Reads: The Christina Books

  THE Christina books lasted through the Seventies and the Eighties, through several authors at ...
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The 18 Best Baby Makin’ Songs of the 1970s

The 18 Best Baby Makin’ Songs of the 1970s

  THE Seventies brand of soul music was wonderfully varied. Sometimes it was political with unflinching ...
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The Only Good Human is a Dead Human? The 5 Most Historically Significant Humans in the Planet of the Apes Saga

The Only Good Human is a Dead Human? The 5 Most Historically Significant Humans in the Planet of the Apes Saga

  IN my earlier post this week, I gazed at the five simians that -- across ...
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Medieval Easter Bunnies That Want To Kill You

Medieval Easter Bunnies That Want To Kill You

Medieval margin illustrations of killer rabbits ...
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The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing

The Fine Art of Yearbook Defacing

    WE all possess an old high-school yearbook lovingly covered in graffiti.  Well, I am ...
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The British New Wave Films and the Books That Inspired Them

The British New Wave Films and the Books That Inspired Them

A slight relaxation of censorship by the late fifties together with the invention of lightweight portable cameras and faster film stock made it easier for directors such as Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson to make films on location away from London and the usual film studios. ...
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8 Things That Were So Much Simpler In The Seventies

8 Things That Were So Much Simpler In The Seventies

BEFORE you get mad, let me preface this list by saying that being complicated does not ...
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Wrigley’s Pan Fried Nightmares – Killing Tastebuds In The 1960s

Wrigley’s Pan Fried Nightmares – Killing Tastebuds In The 1960s

 Wrigley's Spearmint needs to stick to what they know: GUM. Branching out was a huge ...
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    The Death of Cass Elliot and Keith Moon at Harry Nilsson’s Macabre Mayfair Flat

    Cass Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich; everybody knows that. Except that she didn’t. ...
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    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

    Jesus Amongst the Fans: The Naked Hippie Dancer

      It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus. He was on the London Underground, travelling back from work, and noticed the headline of the newspaper unfurled opposite him: “Cambridge riots — two policemen beaten up”. There had been student protests the ...
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    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    The LSD Archive at The Institute of Illegal Images

    “It kept me from eating it if it was framed on the wall” - Mark Mcloud on his amazing collection of LSD Blotters ...
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    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

    ‘Teenage Historian’ Chuck Berry Reviews The Clash, Talking Heads, Joy Division And The Sex Pistols For A 1980 Punk Zine

      In 1980, Chuck Berry spoke to St Louis-based punk zine Jet Lag (1980 -1991). Berry talked about his first gig, signing with Leonard Chess's Chess Records, his role as a "teenage historian" and "what the kids are listening to these days". He was invited to review some records. Chuck Berry's record ...
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    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    New York City Squatters In The 1990s

    "I humbly invite you to take a stroll through my life in the squatter community of the Lower East Side (LES) in the 1990s," writes Ash Thayer, whose book, Kill City, focuses on New York City squatters, harking back to another age, when city's were not being made overly safe, libraries were valued ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Partying At CalArts in the 1970s With A Candid Camera

    Let's time travel to the 1970s, when the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) was a fun place to study. Michael Jang was a student at CalArts, a school set up by Walt Disney in the 1960s. Jang wandered about the place, aiming the Leica camera he'd bought from a wedding photographer at his ...
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