HMV Nipper Car – Wymondham Wheels of Steel
A couple of bootiful photos of a Car used by “Smiths of Wymondham” in Norfolk. The car has the legendary HMV dog Nipper hanging off the back. Continue Reading
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Sweet Music – Man makes chocolate records
Here we have a sweet video of a man who makes records from chocolate. Continue ReadingRead More -
New York Blackout 1977
In recent modern history there have been a number of culturally significant events that have acted as genuine catalysts in pushing music and fashion forward. Mods and rockers fighting at Margate in ’64, the Woodstock festival in 1969 ,the Sex Pistols swearing on live TV at Bill Grundy in 1976 to name but a few. What is less well-known but nevertheless as, if not more, significant is the effect the New York blackout in July 1977 had on the then embryonic hip-hop scene in the South Bronx. This event is seen by many as the tipping point that saw hip-hop expanding from its roots and started it growing into the behemoth we know and love today.
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Barry White Recording Session Outtakes
A copywriter in Texas discovered this outtake of a sweary and irritated Barry White trying to do a radio spot for the Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas.Read MoreWant to hear the Walrus of Love and his potty mouth? Then check out the following video. Continue Reading
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Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties
We’ve previously seen the outside of the HMV record store in our feature on the Streets of London 1976-1978, Now we go further back in time and visit the vinyl packed shop in the 1960’s as we go inside the record shop and check out some wonderful photos of His Master’s Voice flagship store in Oxford street,London.
Join us and take a slow scroll through this brilliant collection of black and white pictures taken inside the Oxford Street store way back in swinging sixties London. You can take a seat in the Personal Lounge Corner, browse through some vinyl in the vocal pops section or just hang out in Cosmopolitan corner. Continue Reading
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Flowered Up – Weekender
Read MoreThe short film Weekender by Flowered up was the condensed Quadrophenia for the Spike Island generation. The band were London’s answer to the Happy Mondays, they even had their own Bez styled dancer – the wonderfully named Barry Mooncult. The band had the baggy psychedelic sound of Madchester with a cockney twang. Continue Reading
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The Principals of Hip Hop
Ever wondered if you’re under- qualified? Ever had that nagging doubt that your CV isn’t rising to the top of the pile? Ever thought there must be a better way to accelerate your way up the greasy pole?
Well kids, ponder no longer. Here at Voices of East Anglia, as well as providing useful articles such as the Charlie Mingus guide to toilet training cats and in-depth analysis of great film character names we also like to do our bit with some occasional but nevertheless useful careers advice. Continue Reading
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Inflight Entertainment
Fasten your seat belts and get set to fly through some Airline related adverts from the golden age of advertising from the sixties and seventies. Continue ReadingRead More -
Cat Toilet Training Guide by Charles Mingus
If you’ve read the title of this post and you’re now heading off to Google to check if it’s true, we don’t blame you. We did the same.We’ve heard music trivia like Delia Smith was involved in cooking the cake on the Rolling Stones album Let it Bleed, and The Monkees Mike Nesmith’s mum invented Liquid paper (Tippex), But Charles Mingus teaching potty training for cats, What the …. Continue Reading
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Blind Blues
Ever wondered why, back in the day, when the first generation of blues singers and musicians came along there were so many blind performers?Names such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Boy Fuller and Blind Willie McTell became so synonymous with the early blues history that some non-blind performers even gave themselves a blind moniker – Eddie Laing, a white, perfectly sighted jazz guitarist, called himself Blind Willie Dunn when he recorded’ Guitar Blues’ on Okeh records with Lonnie Johnson in 1929. Continue Reading
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