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Flashbak’s Top 8 Swinging Sixties London Films

Flashbak’s Top 8 Swinging Sixties London Films

The Beatles’ film A Hard Day’s Night suddenly made the British Kitchen Sink movies appear just a little bit old fashioned. Even if you were from a grey Northern mill town and you'd just got your girlfriend pregnant or indeed you were pregnant, London was suddenly your oyster. In the world of art, music and fashion, England's capital city was the centre of all that was hip. It was the destination of anybody who was anybody and even if you weren’t. ...
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‘A London look for a London girl’ Susannah York and Warren Beatty in Vogue, 1966

‘A London look for a London girl’ Susannah York and Warren Beatty in Vogue, 1966

  In 1966 Susannah York and Warren Beatty appeared together in the film Kaleidoscope directed ...
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The Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes Of The 1980s

The Top 20 Gratuitous Nude Scenes Of The 1980s

What exactly is gratuitous nudity?  If you have to struggle to come up with a ...
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‘Knit One, Purl One, Kill One’: 1970s Emasculating Action Man Knitting Patterns

‘Knit One, Purl One, Kill One’: 1970s Emasculating Action Man Knitting Patterns

In 1960s and 70s Britain there was arguably no toy more masculine than Palitoy’s Action ...
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Miniskirts And Lots Of Purple: A 1972 Women’s Fashion Catalog

Miniskirts And Lots Of Purple: A 1972 Women’s Fashion Catalog

  For you're viewing pleasure, I have lovingly scanned the women's fashion pages from the 1972 ...
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10 Ridiculous (but Awesome) Horror Movie Tag-Lines of the 1990s

10 Ridiculous (but Awesome) Horror Movie Tag-Lines of the 1990s

  BY the beginning of the 1990s, horror movies had changed significantly from previous decades, ...
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1970s-80s Finland: Land Of Exceptionally Awful Singing And Dancing

1970s-80s Finland: Land Of Exceptionally Awful Singing And Dancing

  FINLAND is the Land of the Midnight Sun; but in the 70s and 80s it ...
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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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    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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    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Hanging Out in Leakey, Texas in 1973 – Photos by Marc St. Gil

    Part of the Documerica project - a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. ...
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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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