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Comments 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...
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1960s, Music, Television •
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Comments Off on Garage and Ghouls – The Standells on The Munsters
Sixties Garage band The Standells were no strangers to the big screen, they appeared in a couple of low budget films Get Yourself a College Girl and the 1967 cult classic Riot on Sunset Strip (along with fellow Garage rockers The Chocolate Watch Band) They...
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1980s, Music, Retro Advertising, Television •
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Comments 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...
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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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1990s, Music, Vinyl •
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Comments Off on Headz Up: Mo’ Wax – Urban Archaeology
It’s hard to believe and we are struggling to see quite where the time has gone but legendary UK hip-hop label Mo’ Wax Records first started some 21 years ago and although they’ve not been around since 2002 they will be celebrating a big chunk of UK...
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1970s, Architecture, Music, Vinyl •
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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 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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1970s, 1980s, DJ mix, Music •
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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 The Yardbirds Garden Gig
Back to 1964 and an impromptu gig by The Yardbirds in the back garden of writer and political activist Baron Willis. It seems he’d been very critical of the Beatles’ fans of the time and presumably was a bit perplexed by all this new-fangled pop music...
