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Christmas hits: those Seventies seasonal smashes
Seventies seasonal smashes From the time when Christmas records ruled the Earth In the 1960s The Beatles delighted their fan club members by sending them a specially recorded 45rpm single every...
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Why ‘gay’ John Lennon liked Yoko Ono
WHAT did John Lennon see in Yoko Ono? In The Beatles, Football And Me, Hunter Davies wrote about Lennon’s relationship with Brian Epstein, the band’s manager. They went to Spain together. Writes...
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On This Day In Photos: Yoko Ono Saves John Lennon From The Beatles And Golf
ON This Day In Photos: November 7, 1966 – John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time at an Indica Gallery in London’s West End. He recalled: “Yoko was having an art show in London at Indica...
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Famous People Kissing 1970-1980
KISSING. Everyone does it. Even famous people 1970-1980. Volume 1: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein receives a kiss from the mother of an Iraqi soldier killed at the front during the war with Iran, in...
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Busted: Famous People Arrested For Smoking Marijuana (1949-1980)
Marijuana is the evil weed that will drive you to madness. Well, so they say. Lest the impressionable masses smoke it, the great and good who toke a joint and eneage in immoral drug taking must made...
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The ‘Schoolkids’ Oz, Soho, and the Downfall of the ‘Dirty Squad’
For over 200 years Soho has had a racy reputation. Prostitution, for instance, was relatively open in the area at least until the Street Offences Act of 1959. The number of sex-shops, however, had...
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‘God Help You’: John Lennon’s Vicious Letter To Linda And Paul McCartney (1971)
In 1971, John Lennon wrote to Paul and Linda McCartney. Lennon’s response was triggered by a letter from Linda in which she had admonished Lennon for not openly announcing his departure from The...
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Images of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art
On August 18, 1970, Angela Yvonne Davis’s name was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for kidnapping, murder, and interstate flight. Davis was already a darling of the left for her membership...
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Linda McCartney, and her Photographs of Paul, The Beatles and Other Artists
Linda McCartney- ‘Mirror, Self Portrait’ (1992) Linda McCartney was famous for her vegetarianism, animal rights activism and her work as a music photographer, capturing such famous faces as Aretha...
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How London’s Original Underground Paper ‘International Times’ Fought the...
“We had the launch party at the Roundhouse in Camden. It had been used for storing gin, and had been abandoned for seventeen years. It was just a big space with a balcony that was apparently unsafe....
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