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Archive for the ‘1970s’ Category

  • Terry Callier – No Ordinary Joe

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    For those of you who know the story of Terry Callier you may want to read on just to refresh your memories as to what a great tale it is. For those of you who are not aware of Mr Callier then we implore you to read this and explore his work further. He’s up...

  • Sounds of The Space Age

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    High fidelity equipment straight from the set of Barbarella. Take a browse through our selection of pictures of futuristic designed turntables and Hi-Fi equipment from the Sixties and Seventies. There’s the Grundig space age Audiorama 4000  –...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Your Beautiful Home on a Budget – 1974 Book

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    Your Beautiful Home on a Budget was a home decorating book published in 1974. It was aimed at people who wanted to brighten up their homes on a shoestring budget. The book was written by Dawn Marsden, who also published a book titled “Planning Colour...

  • 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...

  • It Ain’t Nothing But A House Party

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    If Facebook was around in 1970, the pictures of the party at Wolseley Road would of been all over the hosts page the following day. These fantastic pictures are taken from a set of photos titled “Party, party, party in Wolsleley Road”. Some of...