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In 1989 The Stone Roses Ian Brown and John Squire were interviewed by Music Box – it was brilliantly awful

IN 1989, Ian Brown and John Squire of The Stone Roses were interviewed for Music ...
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Photo: June 17, 1986 – Boy George appears in an episode of the A Team

Photo: June 17, 1986 – Boy George appears in an episode of the A Team

FLASHBACK to June 5 1986: Boy George is on the A Team. The original AP ...
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In 1979 Philip Glass Taught Sesame Street Viewers the Geometry of Circles

In 1979 Philip Glass Taught Sesame Street Viewers the Geometry of Circles

  Contuing our occasional look at Sesame Street, arguably the greatest ever children's TV show, we ...
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Photos and video: The Coronation Review of The Fleet at Spithead, 1953

Photos and video: The Coronation Review of The Fleet at Spithead, 1953

THE Coronation Review of The Fleet at Spithead. On July 14 1953 the newly crowned ...
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Sesame Street presents a Samuel Beckett parody, ‘Waiting for Elmo’

Sesame Street presents a Samuel Beckett parody, ‘Waiting for Elmo’

SESAME Sesame presents Waiting for Elmo, a Samuel Beckett parody (a Monsterpiece Theater production). “A modern masterpiece, ...
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Photo: the first ever Sesame Street Cast (when Oscar was orange)

Photo: the first ever Sesame Street Cast (when Oscar was orange)

THIS is the original Sesame Street cast. As you can see Oscar The Grouch is ...
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31 photos of America in colour from 1939-1943

31 photos of America in colour from 1939-1943

THESE photographs give us an idea what America looked like from 1939 to 1943. Taken ...
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In this 1973 photo Sid Vicious is seen heading to a David Bowie Gig

In this 1973 photo Sid Vicious is seen heading to a David Bowie Gig

IN 1973, Sid Vicious - then known as John Simon Ritchie was pictured on his way to ...
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1978: Douglas Adams hitches a lift with glamour model Sheree Boyland

1978: Douglas Adams hitches a lift with glamour model Sheree Boyland

FLASHBACK to 29th November 1978: Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, posing ...
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In photos: the changing face, hair and statues of Lenin

In photos: the changing face, hair and statues of Lenin

THEY erected statues to Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov Lenin, In all of them he looks aged ...
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1944 in photos: French shave heads of women who collaborated with the Germans

1944 in photos: French shave heads of women who collaborated with the Germans

AFTER the Second World War, the French shaved the heads of women who collaborated with ...
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Kenya’s epic jumpers present a history of high jumping before Dick Fosbury flopped

Kenya’s epic jumpers present a history of high jumping before Dick Fosbury flopped

  BEFORE Dick Fosbury (above) flopped in the mid-1960s, high jumpers took on the bar ...
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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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