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‘Swing, Man’: Frank Sinatra’s Letter to George Michael

‘Swing, Man’: Frank Sinatra’s Letter to George Michael

On September 9, 1990, Frank Sinatra wrote this letter to George Michael. The British singer had ...
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Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Together In Pictures

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Together In Pictures

Actress Debbie Reynolds (born Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds; April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) ...
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Richard Adams On Death At The End of A Long Life

Richard Adams On Death At The End of A Long Life

  Richard Adams, the author of Watership Down, the novel first published in 1972, has words on ...
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Christmas Specials in TV Guide (1970s-80s)

Christmas Specials in TV Guide (1970s-80s)

  I've combed through a few back issues of TV Guide to bring you some ...
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“Consummate Actress, Hampered by Beauty” – Glorious Photos of Vivien Leigh

“Consummate Actress, Hampered by Beauty” – Glorious Photos of Vivien Leigh

"People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can’t possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap, if you really want to look like the part you’re playing, which isn’t necessarily like you." ...
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Rick Parfitt On Drugs And Smoking Two Cigarettes

Rick Parfitt On Drugs And Smoking Two Cigarettes

"I've got to apologise to the fans really because it's my fault. You know you ...
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Paul Yule’s Essential Photojournalism Reveals Famous Faces In A Different Light

Paul Yule’s Essential Photojournalism Reveals Famous Faces In A Different Light

Here are just a few examples of the riches presented by photojournalist/filmmaker Paul Yule’s highly ...
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Cal Schenkel And The Fathers of Invention: The Genesis of Frank Zappa’s Album Covers

Cal Schenkel And The Fathers of Invention: The Genesis of Frank Zappa’s Album Covers

Can you inherit artistic ability? Cal Schenkel, arguably best known for creating album covers for the mercurial Frank ...
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Vintage Vinyl Cheesecake: Best of The Bust

Vintage Vinyl Cheesecake: Best of The Bust

In the 1960s-1980s, if you wanted to sell your record, the most reliable method may ...
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Mid-Century Women Enjoying Real Christmas Trees

Mid-Century Women Enjoying Real Christmas Trees

The gallery of mid-century women enjoying fake Christmas trees is glorious. But if all that aluminum ...
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Michael Joseph’s Notorious 1971 ‘Orgy’ Advertising Campaign for Fernet-Branca

Michael Joseph’s Notorious 1971 ‘Orgy’ Advertising Campaign for Fernet-Branca

In 1971 the great advertising director and photographer Michael Joseph was commissioned to shoot a ...
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Mid-Century Women Enjoying Aluminum Christmas Trees

Mid-Century Women Enjoying Aluminum Christmas Trees

  Fake Christmas trees have been around for centuries. The first mass-produced artificial Christmas trees were ...
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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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