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Comments Off on Montreux Jazz Festival Posters 1967-1977
Previously we’ve visited the Montreal Jazz festival, now we nod our heads, stroke our chins and head to Switzerland to check out ten years worth of posters from the second largest Jazz festival in the world – Montreux. The first annual festival...
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Comments Off on Let’s have a look at what you could have won
Win Leonard Nimoys ears? we’re not Star Trek experts here at VoEA, but shouldn’t that be Spock’s pointy ears? Anyhow – in the words of actor Charlie Sheen this post is all about “winning”. Here we flick through some...
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Comments Off on Chromacolor – Zenith Television Brochures
Here in the UK the word “Zenith” is usually associated with a well-known window company or for older readers a defunct British motorcycle manufacturer. Across the pond Zenith is a electronics corporation that manufacture televisions and radios....
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Comments Off on The Office – Island Records Headquarters in 1974
The influence that Island Records had in its heyday is considerable by any measure and when you start to look at their roster and the fact that they almost single-handedly introduced the wider world to reggae you begin to wonder whether many other labels have...
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Comments Off on Beam Me Up Scotchy
Apart from a thirteen year interruption courtesy of the Prohibition in America, Jim Beam have been producing Bourbon Whiskey from Kentucky since 1795. Here we mix it up a few centuries later as we take a look at some of Jim Beam’s advertising campaigns...
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Comments Off on Thirty Jet Magazine Covers
First published in 1955 by John H. Johnson and still going to this day Jet magazine – so called because of the pace of change at the time – was and still is aimed squarely at the black community in America. Since its first weekly appearance on the shelves...
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Comments Off on Harry Goodwin – Pop Photographer Extraordinaire
Whether they used to say if you hadn’t been snapped by Harry Goodwin then you hadn’t made it is open to conjecture but if they didn’t then they should have done because his collection of photos of the stars must be unsurpassed in pop history. As the...
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Comments Off on Paul McCartney’s Left by Bill Brewster
Author, DJ, music historian, record collector, Grimsby fan and all-round good egg Bill Brewster has taken the road less travelled and been digging deep to take a look at the often overlooked funkier side of Paul McCartney. Featuring a mix of McCartney solo...
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Comments Off on New English Library Book Covers
We’ve looked at some of the great book covers from the New English Library’s collection in a previous post including G.F Newman’s compellingly titled ‘You Nice Bastard’ sequel to the perhaps even more impressively named (and best-selling at the...
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Comments Off on Malick Sidibe – The Eye of Bamako
To understand the significance of Malick Sidibe’s photographs from the 1950s through to the seventies you need to understand the history of Mali and the massive social and political changes it went through once it had shaken of the shackles of its...
