17 January 2019 Actor and star of It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Windsor Davies, has died. Davies, 88, who was best known as Battery Sergeant…
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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…
Steptoe and Son (1962 – 1965) The Morecambe and Wise Show (1961 – 1964, 1966 – 1976, 1980 – 1983) Upstairs Downstairs (1971 – 1975)…
23 December 2018 Anne Margot “Honey” Lantree, who has died aged 75, achieved the unique feat of being the first woman drummer in a pop…
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 by…
7 October 2018 John Wicks, frontman of the UK power pop band The Records, has died in Burbank, California, following a battle with pancreatic cancer.…
11 September 2018 Actress Fenella Fielding has died at the age of 90 after suffering a stroke. She was a serious actress remembered for a…
3 September 2018 Jacqueline Pearce has died of lung cancer, aged 74. Pearce made her debut in the 1966 Hammer classic The Plague of the Zombies…
16 August 2018 The great American soul singer Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76. She was reported to have been gravely ill…
The club scene in the “Swinging London” of the 1960s revolved around the area known as Soho – contained in just one square mile, bordered…
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…
From 1968 to 1982, studio-based musicians in the employ of Pickwick Records in Britain mimicked everyone from The Sex Pistols to Roxy Music. Eight albums were issued…
Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in Britain between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the…
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…
22 November 2017 David Cassidy, whose role in the 1970s show The Partridge Family earned him teen heart-throb status, has died aged 67. Cassidy was…
It’s natural to feel a longing for times gone by – a childhood spent singing carols or meals spent with now-departed loved ones. Recently scientists…
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…
9 May 1977: Following 13 concerts in as many days, Elvis rested before resuming what would be his last American tour. 20 May: He began…
25 October 2017 Fats Domino, the New Orleans rhythm and blues singer whose hits include Blueberry Hill and Ain’t That a Shame, has died aged…
23 October 2017 George Young, guitarist in the Sixties band The Easybeats and co-producer on AC/DC’s first five albums, has died at the age of…