It seems there was a bit of a race ongoing at the time to see which country could unveil the first ever Cash Dispenser and alongside the UK were Japan and Sweden. The Barclays Bank – De La Rue joint venture machine beat the Swedes by a mere 9 days and various other machines that had been developed simultaneously arrived on the scene within months.

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You want to see EWF land on your street and walk out of a giant boom-box? Fantasy? Well, we can’t arrange the real thing but we can get part of the way there with this groovy TV ad from 1980. Someday (possibly September) when we get round to it we’ll take a look at the career of EWF in particular the Charles Stepney years (arguably their best period) but in the meantime check out the boys in their Boogie Wonderland, maybe this was After the Love Had Gone but they certainly were a Shining Star in their time (alright, enough already).

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The first annual festival was held in 1967 at the Montreux casino and featured a stella line-up that included such artists as Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans and Weather Report. The event remained strictly Jazz until the 1970s when they broadened their musical scope and started to book major Blues, Soul and Rock acts like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Funkadelic.

Here we have ten posters by different artists, although Push pin studios Milton Glaser’s artwork appears in 1976 and 1977.

VoEA Fact

The Montreux casino burnt down during Frank Zappa’s set in 1971.  Deep Purple were playing as well that weekend, and the fire inspired them to write their anthem “Smoke on the water”.

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Here we flick through some magazines from the past and check out some cool competitions where you could win record players, a role on the Monkees television show, one week in swinging London, a Chopper Bike and a life changing ten Dollars in a Grateful Dead spot the difference competition.

Please note that all entries are closed, so let’s have a look at what you could have won.

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Zenith was originally called Chicago Radio Labs and was co-founded by Ralph Matthews and Karl Hassel in 1918. In later years Zenith invented subscription TV, produced one of the first wireless remote controls “The Space Command” in 1956 and were  the first to develop HDTV in North America

In 1995 the company hit hard times and were rescued from bankruptcy by LG electronics, who still continue to use the name Zenith on certain televisions they produce.

Here we take a look back at happier times with some great technicolour brochures from the early seventies and beyond, including some space age style TV sets and the removal man’s nightmare -The Zenith Solid State System 3 in a wood cabinet.

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Rather than just letting this one slip by, Mo’ Wax main man James Lavelle has been planning a retrospective exhibition called Urban Archaeology and he’s been busy digging through the archives to select the cream from what is by any standards a pretty impressive back catalogue. In fact when the label folded he put everything he had left over into storage and it’s been sitting there in west London ever since.

Choosing from the likes of DJ Shadow, Money Mark, Major Force, Blackalicious and UNKLE, Lavelle has likened it to a time capsule you might bury when you’re at school. The plan is to put together an exhibition (and maybe even a book) to start in London and then tour the UK and possibly further afield. To fund this there’s a Kickstarter (crowd-funding) campaign which managed to raise an impressive GBP14k within the first four days and should hopefully source enough funds to get it up and running.

Have a look at the video below and if you’re interested in participating then follow the link.

VoEA Trivia Fact: The original Mo’ Wax logo came from the pen of UK based graphic designer Swifty who was also responsible for the font we use at the top of the page.

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Chris Blackwell started Island Records (named after the Harry Belafonte song ‘Island in the Sun’) with a thousand pounds in 1959 and sold it some thirty years later to Polygram for $300 million. In the meantime it became the biggest independent label in the world, signed up and made a superstar of Bob Marley, discovered U2 (but we’ll forgive them that), set up the influential ZTT label, signed Ultravox, the Slits, Wynder K.Frog, Mott the Hoople and of course, Spooky Tooth. The list of acts and sub-labels is as long as your arm but suffice to say there’s not been too many labels that have cast such a wide net.

Here we take a quick look at the Island office back in ’74 when flares were wide, ties were of the kipper variety and Spooky Tooth were just releasing their final album before their acrimonious split.

Photos: Philip Lowrey

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Here we mix it up a few centuries later as we take a look at some of Jim Beam’s advertising campaigns from the sixties and seventies.

We start off with Sean Connery “The original James Bond” exchanging his shaken, not stirred Martini for some of Kentucky’s finest tipple. Then we bridge the generation gap with Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and composer Henry Mancini,Film makers Dennis Hopper and John Houston, Actors Robert Wagner and Bette Davis, Athletes Rafer Johnson and Jesse Owens and finish off with the king of easy listening Mr Burt Bacharach with his father.

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During the early days of the American Civil Rights movement the magazine gained a reputation for its hard-hitting coverage and walked where many other publications refused to tread for fear of upsetting advertisers.  Here we take a look at some covers from back in the day when it was printed in black and white (and it continued in monochrome until 1999). The combination of hard-nosed Afro-American news topics alongside celebrity gossip and fashion tips is a recipe they still use today and the blend of the serious with the light-hearted presumably works as they are not far off their 60^th anniversary and still going strong.

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Following service during the war where he honed his photography skills loading cameras in reconnaissance planes flying over Burma and taking photos of the local ladies in Kuala Lumpur to sell to his colleagues at the end of the war he made it back to the UK in one piece. As a trained boxer and big sports fan he began photographing local boxing matches and also beauty pageants in his spare time. He landed himself a job shifting scenery at the BBC in Manchester and began snapping television personalities of the time before he got his big break with the start of TOTP in 1964. He developed a close relationship with The Beatles and many other stars of the day because of his straightforward, honest style and the fact that he rarely if ever sold his prints.

His connection with the boxing world enabled him to gain accreditation with the British Boxing Board of Control and he photographed Muhammad Ali amongst other boxing greats. Because he didn’t sell his prints they never really saw the light of day at the time and it’s only in recent years that his work has been re-discovered. A  permanent exhibition of his work was opened by Yoko Ono at John Lennon Airport, Liverpool in 2007 and he has also prints in the National Portrait Gallery and has recently had an exhibition of his work featured at Salford University.

Harry is still around although now in his late-80s is making the most of his well-earned retirement. Here by way of our own VoEA tribute we take a look back and select some of our favourites from what is, quite literally, an unsurpassed body of work.

Georgie Fame

Otis Redding

The Equals

Chris Farlowe

The Small Faces

Stevie Wonder

Long John Baldry

James Brown

Lee Dorsey

The Yardbirds

P P Arnold

Glen Campbell

Marsha Hunt

Chairmen of  The Board

The Who

The Four Tops

Curtis Mayfield

Graham Nash

Labi Siffre

The Temptations

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