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Comments Off on The Rolling Stones in 66 – Tour Programme
It probably doesn’t need saying but sometimes you don’t quite realise how long the Rolling Stones have been around and so, as if to prove the point, here we have a UK Stones’ tour programme from the autumn of 1966 when they went on the road to promote...
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Comments Off on Up to Eleven – Retro Amplifier Adverts
Now it’s time to crank it up to eleven as we take a look at some amplifier adverts from the early sixties through to the middle of the super seventies. Some of the amps are endorsed by popular musicians of the day, including a rock collage featuring...
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Comments Off on James Brown: Say It Loud – I’m On a Stamp and I’m Proud.
Long before the days of these new-fangled loyalty cards we all seem to have ended up with the world had been collecting trading stamps of differing varieties for many, many years. They were first started in the US (where else!) during the 1890s as an...
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Comments Off on Jayne Mansfield – Doing the Monkey Bird
When a Hollywood actress noted for her publicity stunts whose star is on the wane meets an up and coming soul singer (who happens to be touring Europe with his band) in a hotel on the French Riviera what is the likely outcome? Of course, said soul singer...
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Comments Off on Trade Your Soul
This groovy set of soul and funk trading cards first turned up while we were browsing around the depths of Pinterest. The retro style cards were created by Dublin based freelance designer and illustrator Niall McCormack, who also designs record sleeves, book...
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Comments Off on Sony, Sony, Sony – Seventies Catalogues
In this day and age with companies going to the wall left, right and centre it is rare to see a company that has been trading at the top of their game for a number of decades and is still there mixing it up with the big boys. One such company is Sony which...
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Comments Off on Mick Jagger – Hey, You, Get Out of That Car
It’s September 1966 and Mick is piloting his snazzy new Aston Martin DB6 through the mean streets of West London with his then girlfriend Christine Shrimpton (sister of Jean) accompanying him in the passenger seat. In an incident that can only ever...
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Comments Off on Falling in Love at Woodstock Festival – The Comics
You’ve heard the album, listened to the song, seen the film, and got the T shirt or perhaps you were there (man) at the most famous rock festival in history, but now it’s time to take a look at Woodstock – The comics. Here we have not one,...
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Comments Off on Fender Lovin’ Care – 1969 Guitar Brochure
Now it time for some more axe action as we take a look at a few bright and colourful pictures from the 1969 Fender guitar brochure. In the last catalogue we featured from 1967 most of the instruments were snapped in the great outdoors, in this one we head...
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Comments Off on Drums Please – Sly Stone and Richard Pryor
When comedians get plaudits from other comedians you know they’re good and Richard Pryor was one such comedian. Bob Newhart called him “the seminal comedian of the last 50 years”, Jerry Seinfeld described him as “the Picasso or our profession”,...
