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Peter Wyngarde: when ‘Rape ‘ was King and gross indecency wore vinyl and velvet

Peter Wyngarde: when ‘Rape ‘ was King and gross indecency wore vinyl and velvet

THE Daily Mail is never slow to point out, in merciless detail, the physical and ...
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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 Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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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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