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Richard Berry’s Louie Louie: the song that sowed the seeds for garage, punk and heavy metal

Richard Berry’s Louie Louie: the song that sowed the seeds for garage, punk and heavy metal

  Garage bands have cut their teeth on it since time immemorial. Animal House venerated ...
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A Field Guide to the Hammer House of Horror Women

A Field Guide to the Hammer House of Horror Women

  We've presented you before with guidebooks to the women of A Man Called U.N.C.L.E. ...
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Pan’s Primer: A Lesson On Those Sexy British TV Dance Troupes

Pan’s Primer: A Lesson On Those Sexy British TV Dance Troupes

Most Americans won't recognize the names Pan's People, Hot Gossip, or Legs & Co, and this is ...
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Set Phasers to Stun: The Five Greatest Toy (Space) Guns of the Seventies

Set Phasers to Stun: The Five Greatest Toy (Space) Guns of the Seventies

If most kids today are like my eight year-old son, they generally don’t play today ...
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Cock of the Walk or Feather Duster? The Five Greatest Heroes of 1980s Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Cock of the Walk or Feather Duster? The Five Greatest Heroes of 1980s Post-Apocalyptic Cinema

Thanks to George Miller, Mel Gibson and The Road Warrior (1982), the eighties represents the ...
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On This Day In Photos: May 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: May 7th In The 20th Century

On This Day In Photos: May 7th In The 20th Century"
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Frida Kahlo Fashion: The Artist’s Wardobe Unlocked After 50 Years – Photos

Frida Kahlo Fashion: The Artist’s Wardobe Unlocked After 50 Years – Photos

Frida Kahlo died in 1954. Her husband Diego Rivera gathered her things and locked them inside ...
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Cookie Monster Does “Shaft” and Other Disco Oddities

Cookie Monster Does “Shaft” and Other Disco Oddities

Once disco went mainstream at the tail-end of the Seventies, all hell broke loose.  Everyone ...
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Led Zeppelin’s Mile-High Party Aboard The Starship 1973

Led Zeppelin’s Mile-High Party Aboard The Starship 1973

  In 1973, Led Zeppelin toured North American Tour for the ninth time. The tour was ...
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Demonic Laundromats and Vampire Motorcycles: 15 Ridiculous Movie Monsters

Demonic Laundromats and Vampire Motorcycles: 15 Ridiculous Movie Monsters

(1) Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) Comedian Patton Oswalt has a great bit ...
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Street Life In London: ‘Careful Observations Among The Poor’ In 1877 (35 Photos)

Street Life In London: ‘Careful Observations Among The Poor’ In 1877 (35 Photos)

    In 1877 John Thompson toured London with a camera. With journalist Adolphe Smith, Thompson ...
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The Plotted Genius Of Jack Kerouac’s Divine On The Road Scroll

The Plotted Genius Of Jack Kerouac’s Divine On The Road Scroll

  Jack Kerouac's 1962 essay for Writer’s Digest  “Are Writers Made or Born?" begins: Writers are ...
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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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