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Paul McCartney’s 1960 Letter To Audition A Drummer For The Beatles Trip To Hamburg

Paul McCartney’s 1960 Letter To Audition A Drummer For The Beatles Trip To Hamburg

LETTERS of note: Paul McCartney wrote this letter in 1960 to a possible drummer for ...
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“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

THE AMC original TV series Mad Men (2007 - ) set its latest season against ...
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“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

“They’re Dead. They’re All Messed Up” – How George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Recreates the Unrest of 1968

The AMC original TV series Mad Men (2007 - ) set a season against a ...
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Top 10 Joe Meek Records On The Anniversary Of His Death

Top 10 Joe Meek Records On The Anniversary Of His Death

TODAY marks the anniversary of Joe Meek's death. The first British independent record label, genius ...
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August 1966 – Police Receive This Anonymous Letter About The Krays

August 1966 – Police Receive This Anonymous Letter About The Krays

FLASHBACK to August 1966: police receive this anonymous letter about the Krays:   Transcript: Sir, ...
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On This Day In Photos: February 3 1959 – Buddy Holly Dies On The Winter Dance Party Tour

On This Day In Photos: February 3 1959 – Buddy Holly Dies On The Winter Dance Party Tour

ON This Day - February 3 1959: Charles Hardin Holley - aka Buddy Holly -  22, ...
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Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: Your Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

Intercontinental Dance Floor Dives: Your Euro Disco Dynamite Primer

WHEN disco hit its stride in the mid to late Seventies, it transcended language and boundaries. Perhaps, the secret of its success was that the criterion was so damn simple:  Can you dance to it?  If the answer was “yes”, chances are, you have a disco hit on your hands. ...
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Flashback To 1952: Robert Mitchum’s Homemade Luxury Motor Home

Flashback To 1952: Robert Mitchum’s Homemade Luxury Motor Home

FLASHBACK to September 22 1952: As with many other screen star who lives in the ...
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Watch Philip Seymour Hoffman Rock Three Parts In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

Watch Philip Seymour Hoffman Rock Three Parts In The Fifteen Minute Hamlet

  IN 1995, Philip Seymour Hoffman played Bernardo, Horatio and Laertes in Todd Louiso's 1995 version of ...
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Plastic Punks: The Sid Vicious Doll

Plastic Punks: The Sid Vicious Doll

  In 1993, Sid Vicious was immortalised in plastic and nylon as 'The Ultimate Punk ...
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A Black Gnostic Introduction To Sun Ra And His Archestra: Space Is the Place For Saturn’s Angel Race

A Black Gnostic Introduction To Sun Ra And His Archestra: Space Is the Place For Saturn’s Angel Race

BEFORE cosmic ordering became the celebrities' guiding light, there was Sun Ra, jazz maestro of ...
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In 1964 Isaac Asimov Made These Predictions On The World In 2014

In 1964 Isaac Asimov Made These Predictions On The World In 2014

  IN 1964 Isaac Asimov was wondering about the future. What would the world be ...
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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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