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In April 1967 The Who embarked on a tour of Germany to promote their new single ‘Pictures of Lily’. They took with them two English ‘mod’ bands as support acts – John’s Children and The Action. The result was chaos...
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Comments Off on Pauline Boty – A Life Lived
Discounting the likes of the Beatles and Rolling Stones who are obvious contenders; if we could select one person who epitomised that whole Swinging Sixties, art school, groovy London scene it would most likely be Pauline Boty. Yes we know. Not a name we’d...
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Comments Off on Summer in The City – 1969
The Seventies were just around the corner and Canadian singer Bryan Adams had yet to write a song about it. These Summer of 1969 photos from the August issue of Life magazine show a sizzling New York City in the last Summertime of the decade...
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1950s, 1960s, Transport •
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In these overcrowded, thrifty times, what better way to get from A to B in style, than on a moped….. Hard to define moped fully, but generally 50cc, lighter framed motorcycle type thing, just about captures the essence of it. Nip in and out of traffic,...
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1950s, 1960s, Popular, Vinyl •
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Comments Off on How records are made
Here we have two great sets of photos showing records being manufactured. The first set are from 1954 starting with an engineer splicing up a tape. The second set is called “How records are made” from a 1962 Warner Brothers album sleeve...
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Comments Off on Thunder Soul – The Kashmere Stage Band
This is the story of the Kashmere Stage Band, a bunch of school kids from Houston, Texas who between 1968 and 1977 created some of the dirtiest, nastiest funk music to come out of the southern states. This is also a story that is so good you couldn’t better...
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Toni Basil Breakaway
Mention the name Toni Basil to people of a certain age and they will reply with another name – ‘Mickey’. Her 1982 worldwide hit of the same name was a cover of a song called ‘Kitty’ released three years earlier by Racey and gave...
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Comments Off on Jack Kerouac – On the Road again
Legend has it that Kerouac wrote On the Road in 1951 virtually non-stop over a three week period (presumably stopping occasionally for food and sleep) and the text has that almost breathless, stream-of-consciousness feel to it. Influenced by a long, rambling...
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Comments Off on We Like It Like That – The Story of Latin Boogaloo
In New York City from 1965 to 1970, musicians blended English and Spanish lyrics with Afro-Cuban, jazz, rock and R&B rhythms to create Latin boogaloo. We Like it like that is a project by New York Filmmaker and Writer Mathew Ramirez Warren, who has...
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Comments Off on Hippy High School Fashion
It’s 1969 and floppy hats, flared trousers and other far out fashions are the student attire of the day. These photos from the Life magazine archives were taken by Arthur Schatz. The pictures capture a day in the life of students attending an American...
