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Richard Pryor’s Greatest Hits: Mr Black Death Metal Sings The Blues

Richard Pryor’s Greatest Hits: Mr Black Death Metal Sings The Blues

  RICHARD Pryor could sing. Before the comedy hits came, Pryor headed to New York ...
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Your Biased Lesson For Today: Who Started World War One?

Your Biased Lesson For Today: Who Started World War One?

  WHO started it? Who started World War 1. This is a big year in ...
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Bands Who Sold Out: The Who’s 1982 Schlitz Tour

Bands Who Sold Out: The Who’s 1982 Schlitz Tour

IN 1982, The Who took the corporate coin and sold out to Schlitz. (more…)
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1939 New York World’s Fair Presented By Elektro The Smoking Robot – In 80 Photos

1939 New York World’s Fair Presented By Elektro The Smoking Robot – In 80 Photos

FLASHBACK to The World's Fair 1939: Elektro, a robot made by Westinghouse, smokes at the ...
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12 Impressively Bizarre and Ridiculous Fitness Records

12 Impressively Bizarre and Ridiculous Fitness Records

YEARS AGO in days of old when magic filled the air, people did their workouts ...
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1930: The Plan To Drain And Dam The North Sea And Create DOGGERLAND

1930: The Plan To Drain And Dam The North Sea And Create DOGGERLAND

In September 1930, plans were created to increase the size of Europe by linking the ...
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Balliol Balls: Three Englishmen Saved from Boiling Pot By Cannibal Chief, Who Was Friend at Oxford University

Balliol Balls: Three Englishmen Saved from Boiling Pot By Cannibal Chief, Who Was Friend at Oxford University

EPIC headlines harks back to December 16, 1922: Three Englishmen Saved from Boiling Pot By ...
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Making Coins At The Royal Mint (Photos)

Making Coins At The Royal Mint (Photos)

AT the Royal Mint in Pontyclun, Wales, new coins have been minted. Five new coin designs ...
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The Ronnie Biggs Story: Money, Arsenal And Going Punk In Rio

The Ronnie Biggs Story: Money, Arsenal And Going Punk In Rio

FAREWELL then, Ronnie Biggs.   (more…)
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All The Cool Cats Chewed Beatmint Gum In 1964

All The Cool Cats Chewed Beatmint Gum In 1964

FLASHBACK to Weekend February 4th 1964. All the cool cats were chewing Beatmint gum. Groovy... ...
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Strange and Terrible Fitness Products from the 1970s

Strange and Terrible Fitness Products from the 1970s

The New Year has arrived.  Time to once again pledge to stop eating like a ...
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Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett’s First Trip (Magic Mushrooms) Filmed In 1966

Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett’s First Trip (Magic Mushrooms) Filmed In 1966

SYD Barrett’s first trip (magic mushrooms) as filmed in 1966 by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon.     This ...
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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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