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Reflections on Iceberg Slim: the chronicler of male-female relations

Reflections on Iceberg Slim: the chronicler of male-female relations

I FIRST read Iceberg Slim's autobiography Pimp when I was a teenager. The title, the ...
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Class of 1943: Name the stars in this MGM Studio photo

Class of 1943: Name the stars in this MGM Studio photo

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Album covers: the most manly men in music

Album covers: the most manly men in music

LOOSEN your neckerchief. Unbutton that S-belt on your Comfi-Slax. And open a freakin' window. We've ...
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SuperMuff: Sex, sexism and bad puns sold cars and their part in the 1970s

SuperMuff: Sex, sexism and bad puns sold cars and their part in the 1970s

IN the 1970s, sex sold cars. It also sold cars parts. As much as the ...
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Studs in vintage men’s fashion ads always get the girls

Studs in vintage men’s fashion ads always get the girls

MENS fashion is all about sex. In the 1960s and 1970s, the link was as ...
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Euro pop songs – five of the worst

Euro pop songs – five of the worst

IT occurred to us that Eurovison might be a rich tablet of talent, but it ...
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Book of the Day: The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger

Book of the Day: The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger

BOOK of the Day: The Life and Loves of Mr Jiveass Nigger, by Cecil Brown: ...
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The 1963 Great Train Robbery in photos

The 1963 Great Train Robbery in photos

ON August 8, 1963, The Great Train Robbers stole £2,500,000 from the overnight mail express ...
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So, Whodini, what is a rap attack?

So, Whodini, what is a rap attack?

WHAT'S A Rap Attack. Mr Whodini? With their Magic's Wand, Jalil Hutchins, Ecstasy (John Fletcher) ...
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1966: Woody Allen boxes the Australian light heavyweight champion

1966: Woody Allen boxes the Australian light heavyweight champion

IN 1966, Woody Allen fought a kangaroo at the Hippodrome. The Australian light heavyweight champion ...
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William Faulkner’s Post Office regination letter and dream of working in a brothel

William Faulkner’s Post Office regination letter and dream of working in a brothel

IN 1987, the US Postal Service produced a stamp to honour William Faulkner. Before he ...
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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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