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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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1960s, 1970s, Hanging Out •
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Comments Off on Hanging out with Muhammad Ali
Although we’ve not featured Muhammad Ali, the boxer has appeared on the blog a couple of times. Once in our Bill Withers post, where he’s pictured hanging out with the Soul singer and another time in the story of the mighty Andre the...
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1970s, Architecture, Everyday People •
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Comments Off on The Streets of London in the Seventies
Here we head to the smoke and check out a great set of London photos from Affendaddys flickr photostream. The pictures were taken around 1976 and are mainly of the West End area of the city including the Berwick Street Market, Oxford Street and in and...
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1970s, Television •
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Comments Off on Budgie – we salute you!
A brief guide and review of the Seventies television series Budgie DVD. The series star was former popster Adam Faith, he played the chirpy cockney petty crook “Budgie...
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1960s, 1970s, Documentary •
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Comments Off on Reflections – Sixties Counterculture in Cambridge
Interesting film about the Cambridge counterculture by Alexandros Papathanasiou. Seven local interviewees recall memories such as Syd Barrett playing at a wedding reception, Mods and rockers meeting by the Mill pond, Vietnam war protests and the beginning of...
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1970s, Sport •
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Comments Off on World Cup 1974
I have decided to look at this from the angle of ‘images’ and peripheral stuff that surrounds a world cup, and I’m starting in 1974, for no particular reason… For the record books, it was set in West Germany, and the final was won by...
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1970s, Music, Television •
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Comments Off on Magpie Annual 1976 and The Murgatroyd Band
When you saw former Hammer-Glamour girl Jenny Hanley presenting and heard the Spencer Davis group performing the theme tune under the alias The Murgatroyd band, you realised Blue Peter was for squares and Magpie was for the groovy kids.Here we have some...
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1970s, Music, Unexpected Gems •
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Demis Roussos Midnight is the time I need you
The latest in the Unexpected Gems series looks back to happier days in Greece as Demis hoists his not inconsiderable weight on to the passing disco bandwagon. Go for it big fella...
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1960s, 1970s, Film, Music •
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Comments Off on Here Comes Mongo
Latin Jazz percussionist Mongo Santamaria made his mark on the music scene with his composition of the jazz classic “Afro Blue” and club friendly tunes like “Cloud Nine” and “We got Latin Soul”. He was also an...
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1970s, Food, Music •
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Comments Off on James Brown Japanese Noodle Adverts
Here at Voices of East Anglia we can never get enough of Mr Brown promoting obscure products and it don’t get much more obscure than this. Oh to have been a fly on the wall at the Japanese advertising agency brainstorming session when they came up with...
