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Archive for the ‘1980s’ Category

  • Unexpected Gem: Marti Caine – Love the Way You Love Me

    • 4540 Views • 1980s, Unexpected GemsComments Off on Unexpected Gem: Marti Caine – Love the Way You Love Me

    Another in our occasional series of charity shop classics comes Marti Caine with a sultry slab of deep and dirty bass-driven funk taken from her 1981 album Point of View which, should you happen to spot it at a car boot sale, is now going for somewhere in the...

  • Time For Tee – T-Shirt Adverts From The Past

    • 19719 Views • 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Retro AdvertisingComments Off on Time For Tee – T-Shirt Adverts From The Past

    If a James Brown T Shirt is good enough for James Brown, then it’s good enough for us. However we’re not sure that wearing a Jethro Tull T shirt did drive girls wild with desire in the seventies. Here we have a draw full of T shirts from the past....

  • Detroit and Beyond

    • 17750 Views • 1970s, 1980s, Everyday People, PhotographersComments Off on Detroit and Beyond

    Now we go back to a time when Budweiser six pack vans cruised the streets of Michigan, Darth Vader walked amongst the surfers of Whitmore Lake and a 1972 film titled “The Man” starring a young James Earl Jones had a ridiculous tagline. Here we...

  • All Dolled Up

    • 21022 Views • 1960s, 1980sComments 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...

  • View-Master – Keeping it Unreel

    • 24957 Views • 1970s, 1980s, FilmComments Off on View-Master – Keeping it Unreel

    If you were a proud owner of a View-Master stereoscope as a child of the seventies or eighties, you may be pondering how you missed out on such reels as Star Wars, Death Race 2000, Blood Beach and Adult cartoon favourite Fritz the Cat. Don’t worry,...

  • Public Enemy Deconstructed

    • 12004 Views • 1980s, DJ mix, MusicComments Off on Public Enemy Deconstructed

    The good people at Solid Steel Radio have been at it again and as part of their 25th anniversary celebrations have managed to come up with another hour’s worth of highly recommended listening, this time courtesy of the undoubted, undisputed King of the...

  • Lou Rawls – Affirmative Action Advert

    • 8595 Views • 1970s, 1980s, Music, Retro Advertising, TelevisionComments Off on Lou Rawls – Affirmative Action Advert

    One of our long-time favourites and a singer with an unmistakable voice lending his authority to an advert encouraging kids from minority backgrounds to find their talent in engineering. What’s not to like...

  • Earth, Wind and Fire – Panasonic Television Advert

    • 15176 Views • 1980s, Music, Retro Advertising, TelevisionComments Off on Earth, Wind and Fire – Panasonic Television Advert

    We’ve had a look at Earth, Wind & Fire collaborators Dorothy Ashby and the legendary Charles Stepney before but we’ve yet to do a post about the boys themselves and yes, you’ve guessed right, that’s all about to change...

  • Chromacolor – Zenith Television Brochures

    • 15914 Views • 1970s, 1980s, Ephemera, TelevisionComments 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....

  • Paul McCartney’s Left by Bill Brewster

    • 10134 Views • 1970s, 1980s, DJ mix, MusicComments 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...