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One Hit Wonders: When Ryan Paris Lived La Dolce Vita In A Giant Red Shoe

One Hit Wonders: When Ryan Paris Lived La Dolce Vita In A Giant Red Shoe

WHATEVER happened to... Ryan Paris, the singer born Fabio Roscioli in Rome who gave full ...
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Flashback To1957: The McCormick Skiffle Group Freak Out

Flashback To1957: The McCormick Skiffle Group Freak Out

FLASHBACK to 02/11/1957: The McCormick Skiffle Group were, from left to right, Billy McCormick, Frank Healy, ...
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Sex Sells Tobacco: 10 “Smoking Hot” Vintage Adverts

Sex Sells Tobacco: 10 “Smoking Hot” Vintage Adverts

THE STORY of tobacco in advertising is a long and winding tale.  At some points ...
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Paul McCartney’s 1960 Letter To Audition A Drummer For The Beatles Trip To Hamburg

Paul McCartney’s 1960 Letter To Audition A Drummer For The Beatles Trip To Hamburg

LETTERS of note: Paul McCartney wrote this letter in 1960 to a possible drummer for ...
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“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

THE AMC original TV series Mad Men (2007 - ) set its latest season against ...
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“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

The AMC original TV series Mad Men (2007 - ) set a season against a ...
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Top 10 Joe Meek Records On The Anniversary Of His Death

Top 10 Joe Meek Records On The Anniversary Of His Death

TODAY marks the anniversary of Joe Meek's death. The first British independent record label, genius ...
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August 1966 – Police Receive This Anonymous Letter About The Krays

August 1966 – Police Receive This Anonymous Letter About The Krays

FLASHBACK to August 1966: police receive this anonymous letter about the Krays:   Transcript: Sir, ...
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On This Day In Photos: February 3 1959 – Buddy Holly Dies On The Winter Dance Party Tour

On This Day In Photos: February 3 1959 – Buddy Holly Dies On The Winter Dance Party Tour

ON This Day - February 3 1959: Charles Hardin Holley - aka Buddy Holly -  22, ...
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Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: Your Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: Your Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

WHEN disco hit its stride in the mid to late Seventies, it transcended language and boundaries. Perhaps, the secret of its success was that the criterion was so damn simple:  Can you dance to it?  If the answer was “yes”, chances are, you have a disco hit on your hands. ...
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Flashback To 1952: Robert Mitchum’s Homemade Luxury Motor Home

Flashback To 1952: Robert Mitchum’s Homemade Luxury Motor Home

FLASHBACK to September 22 1952: As with many other screen star who lives in the ...
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Watch Philip Seymour Hoffman Rock Three Parts In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

Watch Philip Seymour Hoffman Rock Three Parts In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

  IN 1995, Philip Seymour Hoffman played Bernardo, Horatio and Laertes in Todd Louiso's 1995 version of ...
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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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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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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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    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    Grace Jones Fucked The ‘Caveman Shit’ And Conquered the World

    There is a moment in every one of those tacky beauty pageants when the sweaty, middle-aged host asks each young swimsuit-clad contestant "If there was one thing you could do what would it be?" The answers are always the same: "I would bring about world peace." It's a nice thought--though ...
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