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Archive for the ‘1960s’ Category

  • 1960s and 1970s Brutus Advertising

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    Brutus was started in London back in 1966 by two teenage brothers Keith and Alan Freedman and became an iconic brand during the Sixties and Seventies. They started off making one style of jumper before extending the range to include shirts, jeans and...

  • Swinging Sixties European Postcards

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    Fabulous selection of European postcards from the swinging sixties. These were purchased between digging for records at a car boot sale in Belgium As you’d guess, there’s not too much information on these cards, what we do know is...

  • The Sublime Soledad Miranda

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    If you’re a fan of Spanish cult vixen vampire horror films or into obscure groovy Soundtrack albums, then you’ve probably seen the star of Vampyros Lesbos – Soledad Miranda, either on a late night showing of the film or on...

  • That’s All Folks – The End

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    This Voices of East Anglia post is brought to you in glorious technicolour. Here are a collection of pictures from The End group on Flickr. The stills are from various film endings, some of them well known and some not. If you want to know the name of the...

  • Cooking with Vincent Price

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    When he wasn’t cooking witches as Matthew Hopkins in the film Witchfinder General, Actor Vincent Price could be found in the kitchen cooking a nice roast dinner. In addition to his acting career, Vincent Price was also a noted gourmet cook. He...

  • Top Ten Rolling Stones Cover Versions

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    Here is our top ten Mick and Keith tunes covered by other artists, and what a tough top ten it was to compile. We had to make decisions like – which cover of Paint it Black to add, the Africa or Eric Burdon and War version. Do we include the...

  • Dance Like an Egyptian – 1960s Record Shop Footage

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    We’re not sure of how accurate the comment is on this You Tube clip that record shops in Egypt were terminated in the late 1970s. Certainly, according to our Middle East correspondent, CDs are readily available and there were plenty of stores selling...

  • Haight Street Hippies of Sixty Seven

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    Our recent feature on Beatniks traced the evolution from beatniks to hippies and dwelled briefly on the early hippies in 1967 San Francisco. The term was first coined in 1965 by San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon to describe some of the beatniks who had...

  • Vintage Japanese Adverts

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    Here we have Three Groovy 1960s Japanese TV Commercials for your viewing pleasure. The first one features Mister Sammy Davis Jr in a Santory Whisky advert, and in another there’s Film star Charles Bronson. In this one Mr Death Wish looks more like...

  • Late Sixties London

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    Statistically – if you hang around Carnaby street long enough,the chances are you will get vox-popped by a roving TV reporter or stopped by a canvasser. Before the days of being interviewed by a Channel 5 researcher asking what your favourite colour...