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18 January 2019 The Barrett-Jackson auction company in Scottsdale, Arizona, is currently auctioning one of three Firebird Formulas provided by Pontiac Motor Division to the...

Pub rock was a British musical genre which endured from the early 1970s to the early 80s. It’s a genre that is defined less...

On Christmas Day 1995, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a short documentary on Oliver Postgate (pictured below) and Peter Firmin (pictured above), entitled Trumpton Riots. Presumably intended...

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in Britain between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of...

John Simons Little did he know it, but in 1965 the clothes stylist John Simons was about to start the skinhead movement in Britain. Simons, a pure Mod at...

As a new decade began, the Swinging Sixties became the Swapping Seventies. Well, that is if you believe everything you saw on the big screen. Britain's film industry...

The problem with hippies was that they were all a bit soft. All of that putting flowers in rifle barrels wasn't going to stop people getting...

One of the best things about Glam fashion was that it was always available, and never overpriced. It had the effect of making its...

He has always been keen to skim over what has been called his 'lost year'. And one look at the photographs on this page...

Many TV shows are lubricated by alcohol, and the big American soaps would dry up and stop without it. The Rovers Return, The Queen Victoria...

Once upon a time in a country where children were served warm milk for free in the middle of the morning, the TV overlords...

It's no coincidence that Britain embraced Glam at precisely the moment that colour TV sets became affordable. It was a visual revolution which would...

We are sticklers for a spot of nostalgia, whether that's the return of former Saturday night fave Stars in their Eyes or the constant...

She has what must be Britain's best-known silhouette - yet for 40 years she has been anonymous herself. Since 1964, the sign displaying a little...

In 2014, executives from 100 British toy companies were invited to cast their votes on the games which they thought had most shaped the industry and childhoods...

The Ronnie Lane Memorial Concert. Royal Albert Hall, London. 8 April 2004 For anyone up to speed with the tragic trajectory of Ronnie Lane, the...

Throughout its history, rock & roll has been inextricably linked with the English language - the first tongue, after all, of the nation of...

The doorway was just south of Shaftesbury Avenue on the west side of Wardour Street. Walk along the echoey hall, down the stairs to...

Park the car, get out that picnic table and eat those spam sandwiches you made earlier. Sit back in that fold up chair and...

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