Downtown, 1956-1965–the first volume of Sixties British Pop, Outside In–describes the rise of London’s music and recording cultures through the stories of those who empowered Britain’s youth to be young. As the generations born in the postwar world entered adolescence and demanded a say ...
Scooters were hugely popular in the 1950's and the early modernists by and large adopted the Italian made machines such as the Vespa GS and series 1 + 2 Lambretta for being stylistically superior to the British machines of the day. The weather of London in this era was frequently cold thu...
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Edgar P. Jacobs’s Blake & Mortimer adventureThe Necklace Affair.Philip Mortimer, a leading British scientist, and his friend Captain Francis Blake of Britain’s MI5, are in Paris when they learn that their enemy, Colonel Olrik (from the previous six Blake & Mortimer adventures), has escaped ...
While incorporating Pop Art procedures, NETCO produced landscapes that provided innovative images of a West Coast lifestyle mimicking notions of leisure and industry promoted by the likes of Beautiful British Columbia—a government-sponsored magazine fashioned after National Geographic which painted a pictu...
John le Carré’s espionage adventure The Looking Glass War A nearly defunct WWII-era British Intelligence agency (“The Department”) suspects that Soviet missiles are being placed near the West German border, and although they have no evidence that this is the case (shades of George W. Bush...
“I found a job with Ensoniq, a keyboard company,” said Boggia. “I worked there for nine years and then started making music full-time in 1996. I started out playing open mic nights. My first booked gig was at the Tin Angel opening for Kirsty McCool, a great British singer who tra...
moving over to England for the power trio of British Blues, and back home to America with the greatest blues-rock guitarist of all time, Jimi Hendrix. Then, the finest of San Francisco acid rock improvisations, followed by the mountain jam of all time, inspired by the acid rock and in ...
Keeler, Christine: The London call girl who almost brought down the British government when her affair with Secretary of State for War John Profumo was exposed. She and her fellow sex worker Mandy Rice-Davies occupied the headlines for weeks as the scandal dragged on. ...