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Hall & Oates Explain Their 1973 Out-There Pop Video For She’s Gone

Hall & Oates Explain Their 1973 Out-There Pop Video For She’s Gone

IN 1973, John Hall and Daryl Oates performed She’s Gone in a promotional video for their second ...
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Watch Inside Story, A Look At British Mercenaries In The Balkans War

Watch Inside Story, A Look At British Mercenaries In The Balkans War

  ON 20 May 1992, the BBC broadcast Inside Story, a look at British members of the ...
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When You Supervise A Woman: How To Train A Woman – A 1940s Factory Brochure

When You Supervise A Woman: How To Train A Woman – A 1940s Factory Brochure

IN the 1940s women were amancipated. But the bosses were men. Could they handle the ...
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15 Objectively Terrible Sci-Fi/Fantasy Paperback Covers

15 Objectively Terrible Sci-Fi/Fantasy Paperback Covers

  Colin Greenland's Harms Way cover at left is nothing too terrible - it fulfills what ...
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Punk Lives Centerfolds of the Early 80s

Punk Lives Centerfolds of the Early 80s

Admittedly, I was too busy listening to Men at Work and Kajagoogoo in 1983 to ...
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The 44th Anniversary of the First Glastonbury Festival In Photos

The 44th Anniversary of the First Glastonbury Festival In Photos

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‘Cycle Slut’: Barbra Streisand Trails The Owl And the Pussycat With Kinky Whips And Leathers For ABC Magazine 1970

‘Cycle Slut’: Barbra Streisand Trails The Owl And the Pussycat With Kinky Whips And Leathers For ABC Magazine 1970

    THESE photos from Italian magaine ABC were published in  1970, when Babs was plugging her ...
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Listen To Marvin Gaye’s Isolated I Heard It Through The Grapevine Vocals (1967)

Listen To Marvin Gaye’s Isolated I Heard It Through The Grapevine Vocals (1967)

  TAKE it away, Marvin Gaye....     Spotter: Kottke
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15 Reasons Roller Skating In The 1980s Was Crazy Awesome

15 Reasons Roller Skating In The 1980s Was Crazy Awesome

Back in June we presented the 10 Reasons Aerobics in the 1980s Was Crazy Awesome (should ...
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14 Ill-Advised Album Covers (1960s-1970s)

14 Ill-Advised Album Covers (1960s-1970s)

For an album called “Carnaby Street” the obvious choice for the album cover would’ve been ...
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The LA Police Department  Skilled Shooting Exhibition Of 1936 (video)

The LA Police Department Skilled Shooting Exhibition Of 1936 (video)

  THIS is vintage early colour footage of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Pistol Team ...
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The 1970s Political Landscape And An Epic Newspaper Correction

The 1970s Political Landscape And An Epic Newspaper Correction

THE 1970s political landscape as explained by this newspaper correction:       Spotter: @JohnRentoul
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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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