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Ralph Steadman’s Illustrations for George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995)

Ralph Steadman’s Illustrations for George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1995)

In 1995, Ralph Steadman added his illustrations to a 50th anniversary issue of George Orwell’s Animal ...
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When Lee Scratch Perry Tried To Bust Paul McCartney From A Japanese Jail (1980)

When Lee Scratch Perry Tried To Bust Paul McCartney From A Japanese Jail (1980)

When Paul McCartney was arrested for cannabis possession, The Upsetter demanded his release ...
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A Look Inside Magician Trade Magazines from the 1940s-1980s

A Look Inside Magician Trade Magazines from the 1940s-1980s

From "Atomic Candle" and "Cigarette Impalement" advertisements to cheesy magic humor and sexy magician's assistants ...
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15 TV Show Board Games of the 1970s

15 TV Show Board Games of the 1970s

In the 1970s, no television show was off-limits for merchandising; whether it was Grizzly Adams ...
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Stewardess or Secretary? Career Ads for Women in the 1960s and 70s

Stewardess or Secretary? Career Ads for Women in the 1960s and 70s

Females in the 1960s and 1970s had plenty of job opportunities at their fingertips - ...
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Joseph Brodsky Delivers His Essential 6 Rules For Living Well: Ann Arbor December 18, 1988

Joseph Brodsky Delivers His Essential 6 Rules For Living Well: Ann Arbor December 18, 1988

  On December 18, 1988, Nobel Prize for Literature winner Joseph Brodsky (May 24, 1940–January 28, 1996) ...
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Skulls on Vintage Book Covers: A Frightfully Overused Motif

Skulls on Vintage Book Covers: A Frightfully Overused Motif

  Admittedly, it's a compelling image.  What's more attention grabbing and fitting for a macabre ...
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Soviet Citizens See The Future: Photos From The 1959 Kitchen Debate

Soviet Citizens See The Future: Photos From The 1959 Kitchen Debate

It was a political gameshow in which both sides pulled back the curtain and and told ...
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Anita Pallenberg – The Greatest Rock Muse Of Them All

Anita Pallenberg – The Greatest Rock Muse Of Them All

Anita Pallenberg has died. Perhaps the greatest rock muse of them all. She was born ...
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‘Nobody Is Going To Beat Me’: King Cassius Clay Sings ‘I Am The Greatest’

‘Nobody Is Going To Beat Me’: King Cassius Clay Sings ‘I Am The Greatest’

  I was commissioned to write these sleeve-notes by Joe Foster for his label Rev-Ola’s ...
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Free Ambient Music From Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars And Doctor Who To Aid Relaxation, Creativity And Deep Sleep

Free Ambient Music From Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars And Doctor Who To Aid Relaxation, Creativity And Deep Sleep

  "Something nameless hums us into sleep,” wrote Mark Strand in his poem Dreams. "Withdraws, and ...
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Chrissie Hynde and Kate Simon Wear Malcolm McLaren’s Sex Pistols Smoking Boy Tees

Chrissie Hynde and Kate Simon Wear Malcolm McLaren’s Sex Pistols Smoking Boy Tees

  This photograph – taken by Joe Stevens in early 1976 in Fulham, west London ...
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    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Debbie Harry And Me – Shooting The Blondie Singer in 1970s New York City

    Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music ...
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    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

    The First ‘Sext’ – Sarah Goodridge’s ‘Beauty Revealed’ (1828)

      'Beauty Revealed' is a self-portrait by the American artist Sarah Goodridge (February 5, 1788 - December 28, 1853). Descendants of US Secretary of State Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852) say Goodridge painted it for him. Why is unclear. But we can guess. Robert Remini, in ...
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    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Fabulous Photographs of Cruising Van Nuys Boulevard In 1972

    Rick McCloskey's fabulous photographs of a vanished Californian youth culture ...
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    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    Bloody Brutal Vintage Crime Scene Photos from the Los Angeles Police Department Archives

    In 2014 Los Angeles-based photographer Merrick Morton (a onetime LAPD reserve officer) spotted a derelict stash of haunting LAPD crime photos. Here they are. ...
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    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Too pinko for Dan or How Slim Pickens replaced Peter Sellers as Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove

    Kubrick had optioned Peter George’s book Red Alert and was working on a screenplay with George when he realised the impossibility of making a melodrama out such an horrific subject and thought the only rational response was to make “a nightmare comedy." ...
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    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    Dirty Sex, Freaks And Derelicts Of 1980s New York City (NSFW)

    “Before I arrived in NYC in 1980 I had lived in Berlin and London so I was ready for the rotten apple from the beginning.” ...
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    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    ‘A Shit of the Highest Order!’ The Story of the Charming Lord ‘Bob’ Boothby

    To his face, the writer, campaigner and broadcaster Sir Ludovic Kennedy once called Baron Boothby of Buchan and Rattray Head, his mother’s cousin, ‘a shit of the highest order’. Boothby’s response was to chortle, rub his hands and say: ‘Well a bit. Not entirely.’ ...
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    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    The Anarchy Tour of 1976

    Ray Stevenson's Extraordinary Photos of the Clash and the Sex Pistols... ...
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    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

    The Sixteen Pleasures: The Vatican’s 16th Century Sex Guide

      I Modi (The Ways) is best known as The Sixteen Pleasures, an illustrated sex guide published by Marcantonio Raimondi in 1524. Based on paintings by Giulio Romano, The Sixteen Pleasures carries the proud boast of being the first work of pornography banned by the Catholic church. For his gross indecency, Raimondi was imprisoned by ...
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    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    Tea For Two: The Last Photos Of Jimi Hendrix Alive, By Monika Dannemann

    On September 17, 1970, Jimi Hendrix with in London his German girlfriend, the former ice-skating teacher Monika Dannemann.  She had rented rooms at the Samarkand, a self-catering apartment hotel in Notting Hill. After a day out at Kensington Market and the Cumberland Hotel, Jimi and Monika took tea in the garden behind her flat. Monika ...
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