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Comments Off on Palm Beach Pop – 1969 Style
Now this must have been one hell of a weekend even if it was held at the end of November and the weather was, well let’s just say it was typical festival conditions. It was the only US festival the Rolling Stones played in 1969, almost all the original...
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1960s, Futuristic, Transport •
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Comments Off on Up, Up & Away – Hey Kids it’s the Skycar
Who of us hasn’t, when sat in a never-ending traffic jam, imagined the delight to be had in rising above the cars, trucks and fumes and gliding off into the sunset without a care in the World. Well, wonder no longer kids because we might just have the very...
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1960s, Literature •
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Comments Off on Sssshhhhh…..It’s Retro Library Posters
Quite what the future holds for our humble local libraries is a difficult one to call what with the old World Wide Web and almost any information we want available at our fingertips via smart phones and the like. We’d like to think that libraries are still...
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1960s, Art •
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Comments Off on Guido Crepax – Pop Art Milanese Style
Welcome to the world of Guido Crepax – an artist probably best-known for his erotic cartoons and the Valentina character he created in 1965. However, here at VoEA we don’t really do erotic art and all that so instead we are going to take a look at the...
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1960s, Retro Advertising •
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Comments Off on Motown’s Marvelous Marketing Machine
We’ve mentioned Berry Gordy’s commercial acumen and eye for a promotional opportunity before when we looked at The Supremes Special Formula White Bread although if we’re honest that was probably not his finest marketing moment. Putting that to one side...
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1960s, Book Covers •
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Comments Off on Sixties Antipodean Pulp Fiction
Let’s take a trip down-under mate and have a sneaky peak at the Australian pulp fiction scene of the 1960s where Horwitz Publishing were kings of the outback (well, Sydney) and churned out books at a mind-bogglingly prodigious rate. Horwitz...
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Comments Off on Jazz Matches – Have You Got a Light Boy?
Just the thing for when you’re having a crafty jazz woodbine round the back of the bike sheds – yes, we bring you the ultimate in hip and cool smoking paraphernalia – jazz matches. Featuring all your favourite crooners, pluckers, blowers and bangers we...
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Comments Off on The Avengers 1971 London Stage Play
OK you lot. Who out there knew The Avengers once had their own stage play? Well, neither did we until we stumbled across some rather interesting photos and decided to dig a bit deeper. It was 1971; the stage play was technically tricky and massively ambitious...
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1950s, 1960s, Art •
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Comments Off on Andy Warhol – Jazz Album Covers
We’ve cast an eye on the undeniably prolific Andy Warhol in a couple of previous posts – firstly looking at his Early Years and secondly when he started to make the most of his new-found fame featuring as he did in an advert for the now defunct...
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Comments Off on All Dolled Up
While we all like to think that modern pop music is crass, commercialised and lacking substance (and in fairness it generally is) – we also tend to have this romantic idea that music from a bygone age was all about the groove and was not just about...
