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It’s time to get groovy again at Voices of East Anglia with some hip and happening colourful book covers from back in the day. Our Psychedelic pickings incorporate various genres of books, from the adult orientated ‘Black is the color’...
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Comments Off on Tomorrow People – The World of The Future
Who’d be a futurologist eh? You try your hardest to predict what’s likely to happen in a generation or so and almost inevitably you’ll get a least 50% of it wrong. These magazine articles and books from the 1950s and 1970s are wildly inaccurate when...
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Comments Off on Younger Than Today – Retro Kids Book Illustrations
What a wonderful collection we have for you today….. Kids book illustrations from the 60’s and 70’s, mainly mid to late 60’s, and by various artists, which we may feature in more depth in the future. But for now, we just thought...
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These film tie-in book covers are from different decades.They’re all different genres, from Mod favourite Quadrophenia to kitchen sink drama Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. The only thing they all have in common is – They are all...
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Comments Off on Just Say No – Sixties Drug Education
Before President Nixon coined the term ‘War on Drugs’ in 1971 the approach to drug awareness education in the States had a gentler and more informative feel than the scaremongering that seemed to follow. Government policies on drug use are a debate for...
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Comments Off on Psychedelic Snack – Retro Recipes and Cookbooks
Now, for those expecting to see recipes involving magic mushrooms and marijuana, we don’t mean that sort of Psychedelic Snack -The title refers to the groovy gourmet related covers (also it was a good chance to use some Motown wordplay courtesy of The...
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Comments Off on Faux Design – Record and Book Covers
You wont find the Televista Moods 2 album on the Hampshire University labelwhile flicking through records at a car boot sale, neither will you see The Pigeon Fancier’s Gambit on the bookshelves of Oxfam, as all of these excellent designs are...
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Comments Off on Script Bare – Book Adaptations
If there’s one thing that lies behind a great movie it’s a great story. Look at all the best films and they all have a great storyline as the foundation on which they are built, no decent storyline – no decent film. ‘Sex Lives of the Potato Men’...
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Comments Off on 25 Groovy Hippy Book Covers
Similar to our previous Vintage Beatnik Book covers post, these books about Hippies are a mixture of novels involving the hippy lifestyle and insights into the hippy scene, such as our favourite “We are the people our parents warned us...
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Comments Off on Just How Did The Stone Roses Get Their Name?
We’ve been big fans of The Stone Roses since the release of their eponymous debut album way back when and with their forthcoming reunion coming up this seems particularly apposite. We had always worked on the assumption (as we believe most fans had)...
