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Comments Off on Pierre Henry – The Art of Sounds
French composer Pierre Henry first came to our attention way back in 2000 when Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim remixed ‘Psyche Rock’. Prior to that he’d not really been on the radar which is a shame because the work he’s done over the years is very...
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Comments Off on Top Ten Fictional Bands
This is one we’ve been working on for a while now and has taken a bit of doing – however after much searching we can now proudly present to you VoEA’s Top Ten Fictional Bands. These are made-up bands that we’ve found from TV shows and films –...
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Comments Off on The Funky Side of Sammy Davis Jr
Much has been written about Sammy Davis Jr over the years and that’s including his three autobiographies so we won’t re-hash all the stuff about the Rat Pack, the three marriages, the racism, the horrific car crash where he lost his eye, the drinking and...
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Comments Off on 1970s Hamburg Concert Photos
Back in the early Seventies, Heinrich Klaffs was a Freelance journalist, photographer, police reporter and editor at the HamburgerAbendblatt newspaper. During his time at the Hamburg paper he had the opportunity to take countless shots...
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Comments Off on Wattstax – Come Together
In August 1972 Stax Records organised the Wattstax music festival to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots. The riots themselves started with the arrest of a 21 year old African American, Marquette Frye, on suspicion of drink-driving in the...
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Comments Off on Soul For Sale – Sixties Record Adverts
As fans of soulful sounds, we got quite excited when we came across this brilliant selection of record adverts on photo sharing site Flickr. Member Tim the Mod has painstakingly scanned and uploaded over 350 various Soul, Jazz, R&B and Rock record...
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Comments Off on Unexpected Gems – Bruce Forsyth Lucretia Mac Evil
OK kids, for a Brucie bonus point, who knew that the great man himself had recorded such a groovy track as this? Here we see Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson take on the Blood, Sweat & Tears psychedelic, jazz-funk classic ‘Lucretia Mac Evil’...
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Comments Off on Going To A Happening – Concert Posters
Whether or not bands were better back in the day is a debate for another time and another place but we’ll wager that the posters advertising gigs and festivals were way, way better back then than they are now...
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Comments Off on Lillian Roxon – The Mother of Rock Journalism
Lillian Roxon ‘s career was extraordinary in many ways – she wrote the world’s first ever rock encyclopedia, she became the first Australian journalist, male or female, to establish a high profile in the States and she effectively pioneered rock music...
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Comments Off on Wired For Sound – Adverts For Headphones
We remember the days when headphones were so big and heavy it was like having a couple of bricks strapped to either side of your head. Over the years they have been scaled down and have become more compact. In fact they have shrunk so much through the...
