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Never Meet Your Heroes: In 1984 A Teenaged Fan Met ‘Poofy’ Duran Duran And Came Away Unimpressed

Never Meet Your Heroes: In 1984 A Teenaged Fan Met ‘Poofy’ Duran Duran And Came Away Unimpressed

ON January 19, 1984, 16-year-old Tracy Nolan met top pop act Duran Duran. Smash Hits ...
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Scary Home Movies Are The Best Things On 8mm You’ve Seen Today

Scary Home Movies Are The Best Things On 8mm You’ve Seen Today

HOME Movies. Not the sort you record on your smart phone and show off to ...
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70s Rock Bands: When It Was Cool To Look Homeless

70s Rock Bands: When It Was Cool To Look Homeless

  FOR some reason, it became a thing of pride for 1970s rock musicians to ...
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You’ll Blow Your Mind Out In A Car: The Hellish Rolling Stone Mag Beatles Tribute Of 1977 (Video)

You’ll Blow Your Mind Out In A Car: The Hellish Rolling Stone Mag Beatles Tribute Of 1977 (Video)

THIS might be the world's worst Beatles tribute. In 1977, Rolling Stone Magazine booked Ted Neeley ...
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On This Day In Photos: Nottingham Forest Make Birmingham City’s Trevor Francis British Football’s First £1Million Player

On This Day In Photos: Nottingham Forest Make Birmingham City’s Trevor Francis British Football’s First £1Million Player

ON this day - February 9, 1979: Trevor Francis became British football's first £1m transfer when ...
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Flashbak, Everything Old Is New Again

The History of Football In Three Minutes (With Billy Joel)

  The history of football in three minutes. Identify all the stars and win a ...
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Otl Aicher: The Olympic Designer Who Shaped Your Journey To The Toilet

Otl Aicher: The Olympic Designer Who Shaped Your Journey To The Toilet

  WHAT did the Olympics ever do for you? Otl Aicher was the true star of ...
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Otl Aicher: The Olympic Designer Who Shaped Your Journey To The Toilet

Otl Aicher: The Olympic Designer Who Shaped Your Journey To The Toilet

  What did the Olympics ever do for you? Otl Aicher was the true star of the ...
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The Russian Olympics Of 2013: Photos Of The Forgotten Games

The Russian Olympics Of 2013: Photos Of The Forgotten Games

  BETWEEN 1900 and 1912, Russia competed at the Russian Empire - although it failed ...
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29 Classic Photos I Found From 1956

29 Classic Photos I Found From 1956

TODAY I trawled the archives for pictures from 1956 worth looking at again. All captions ...
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The Baby Boxing Championships of 1942

The Baby Boxing Championships of 1942

IN 1942, fights fans surrounded the ring to see the toddlers slugs it out.  If ...
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Weasels Ripped My Flesh! 10 Awesome Pulp Headlines

Weasels Ripped My Flesh! 10 Awesome Pulp Headlines

IS there anything better than a mid-century men’s action magazine?  They were chock full of ...
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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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