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12 adverts from Smash Hits magazines of summer 1983

12 adverts from Smash Hits magazines of summer 1983

SMASH Hits magazine was fantastic. But amid the articles and photos, were adverts. We've compiled ...
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Texas Tech University’s Year Book features a Playboy tribute with Playmates and sexy tips

Texas Tech University’s Year Book features a Playboy tribute with Playmates and sexy tips

HOW times change. In 1961, Texas Tech University created a Playboy magazine feature in its in-house organ La ...
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Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls

Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls

MARK Twain has Advice to Little Girls. As told to them in 1865: Good little ...
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1983: Macho George Michael loves The Sweet but hates the ‘effeminate one’

1983: Macho George Michael loves The Sweet but hates the ‘effeminate one’

FLASHBACK to Smash Hits, September 29, 1983, when George Michael was picking the hits. George ...
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10 must-see music photos from the past

10 must-see music photos from the past

10 Must-See Music Photos From The Past  03/07/1973: (left to right) Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and ...
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1991: Nirvana’s first televised performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Kurt is unplugged and contracted in a Radio Shack

1991: Nirvana’s first televised performance of Smells Like Teen Spirit and Kurt is unplugged and contracted in a Radio Shack

TWENTY years ago, Nirvana released In Utero. Anorak bought it. And played it loud. In ...
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The 17 British sports legends and pop stars who owned their own shops

The 17 British sports legends and pop stars who owned their own shops

WHEN Huddersfield Giants star Danny Brough (seen here with his bestselling blueberry bonbons) revealed his other ...
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‘How We Do Things in Bald Knob, Arkansas’, and other tall-tale vintage postcards

‘How We Do Things in Bald Knob, Arkansas’, and other tall-tale vintage postcards

AT the turn of the 20th Century, rural US cities and towns featured on Tall-Tale ...
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Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen answer the phones on Efrom Allen’s New York cable TV show in 1978

Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen answer the phones on Efrom Allen’s New York cable TV show in 1978

ON September 18, 1978, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungun appeared on New York cable Tv ...
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The Clash live in Tokyo 1982 – the full concert of the band’s last original line-up show

The Clash live in Tokyo 1982 – the full concert of the band’s last original line-up show

IN the first two months of 1982 the Clash stormed Japan. Their tour of the ...
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Education for Death: in 1943 Disney taught kids how to be a Nazi

Education for Death: in 1943 Disney taught kids how to be a Nazi

IN 1943, Disney studios produced The Making of a Nazi. This short film was funded ...
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Hey Lulu: The Stoned Performance That Got Jimi Hendrix Banned By The BBC

Hey Lulu: The Stoned Performance That Got Jimi Hendrix Banned By The BBC

After breaking into Hey Joe, as arranged and introduced by the pop Pixie, Hendrix had enough ...
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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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