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Comments Off on It’s Only Teenage Wasteland -Bedroom Wall Posters
Remember when true loyalty meant rolling up a ball of blu-tack and applying it to four corners of your favourite poster? When you could show your mates how cool and hip you were with your impressive collection of Athena posters? There was a time when our...
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Comments Off on The Rise and Fall of Brutalist Architecture
Looking back to the 1950s and 60s many of the new public buildings that were commissioned in the UK were designed in the Brutalist style. The authorities had to rebuild a war-ravaged Britain quickly and to a restricted budget. They wanted a solution that...
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Comments Off on 7UP Retro Billboard Posters
This post does exactly what it says on the can – see what we did there? Here we have a bright and psychedelic selection of Sixties and Seventies Billboard adverts for the fizzy drink ...
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1970s, Music, Retro Advertising, Vinyl •
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Comments Off on Super Bad K-Tel records – 1970s TV Commercials
Outasight adverts for the car boot classic albums Super Bad and Super bad is back. These television ads for these K-Tel soul compilations feature Joe Simon, Millie Jackson and an Isaac Hayes Lookalike...
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Comments Off on Interrupted Greatness – Charles Stepney
Cited by many as an absolute musical genius and the driving force behind some of the finest music to come out of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s, Charles Stepney is acknowledged by artists such as Stevie Wonder, Terry Callier and Ramsey Lewis as a massive...
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1970s, Music, Unexpected Gems •
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Elkie Brooks The Rising Cost of Love
The continuing saga of The Unexpected Gems carries on with Elkie Brooks version of The rising cost of Love. This Norman Jay favourite is an upbeat funky little number taken from the 1979 album Live and Learn. Darrow Fletcher also recorded a more downbeat...
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1960s, 1970s, Music •
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Comments Off on The Sound Of Smiles
Here’s some sights and sounds from The Land of Smiles – Thailand, although the chaps in the band don’t look too happy. We’ve selected some of our favourite record covers from Siamfunko’s flickr selection and added Thai...
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1960s, 1970s, Transport, Youth Culture •
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Comments Off on Soul on Bikes – The East Bay Dragons
While East Anglia’s biker gang The Outcasts cruised the promenade of Great Yarmouth, The East Bay Dragons were riding on the mean streets of Oakland, California. The All Harley Davidson Black American biker gang started as a car club in the 1950s...
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Barbra Streisand Stoney End
The latest installment in our Unexpected Gems series is the soulful version of Stoney End by Barbra Streisand. Stoned End was written by singer and songwriter Laura Nyro. When Nyro originally released the song as a B side it caused controversary as it...
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Comments Off on Lennie Peters – A Brief Retrospective
For those of us old enough to remember the 1970s, no Saturday night watching the telly was complete without a song from the then ubiquitous Peters & Lee. Whether it was the Des O’Connor show, Seaside Special or the hilarious Mike and Bernie...
