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LIKE A ROLLING STONE | THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE KELLY GANG
By Geoff Stanton When Mick Jagger set stirrup for the lead role in 1969’s Ned Kelly, history was meant to bear him somewhere between Billy the Kid and a ballsy Irish folk song. “The more I worked on...
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NIGERIA’S PSYCHEDELIC EXPLOSION 1971-1976 | GINGER BAKER IN AFRICA
Twins Seven-Seven and His Golden Cabretas By Geoff Stanton When former Cream drummer Ginger Baker fled London in 1971 – leaving behind a decade of debauchery and burnt bridges – the hoary legend...
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PETER FALK, BEN GAZZARA AND JOHN CASSAVETES | LIFE DEATH AND FREEDOM 1970
By Geoff Stanton “They called John Cassavetes a cinema-verite director in one of the obituaries. That’s French for ‘the cinema of truth’, the kind of documentary film-making where the director stands...
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THE GUNS OF BRIXTON | LONDON RIOT SOUNDTRACKS REVISITED 2011
by Geoff Stanton It used to be you could tell a good riot from the soundtrack. Just look at the peasant revolt of 1381 – five hundred and ninety years before Johnny Rotten, its rabble-rousers still...
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THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF DENNIS HOPPER | MARTIN LUTHER KING TO EASY RIDER 1961-1967
Dennis Hopper: Bruce Conner (in tub), Toni Basil, Teri Garr and Ann Marshall, 1965. via Photographs 1961-1967 (Taschen)/© The Dennis Hopper Trust By Geoff Stanton Before his ferocious ascent to...
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SATANISM IN HOLLYWOOD | KENNETH ANGER’S GOLDEN AGE OF OCCULT 1969
Dr Alfred Kinsey and Kenneth Anger unearth Aleister Crowley’s Satanic frescoes in Thelema Abbey, Sicily. “As Keith and Anita learned more about the powers of darkness, they grew secretive. They knew...
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GREAT DESKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY | CHAOS AND CALM IN THE WRITER’S ANCHORAGE
Nick Cave cocoons himself in purpose – and various accessories – while writing ‘And The Ass Saw the Angel’, Berlin 1986. Every desk tells a story. Take a look at your own. It may be the only place you...
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TIMOTHY LEARY’S ‘DANGEROUS’ PSYCHEDELIC ALBUM | YOU CAN BE ANYONE THIS TIME...
“Timothy Leary for Governor of California. Come Together…Join The Party!” Leary’s Governor campaign poster, 1969. Last week the New York Public Library released hundreds of previously unpublished...
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A NIGHT IN SAN QUENTIN WITH JOHNNY CASH | RARE PHOTOS 1969
“All of the guards were backing up towards the doors. I went in and got in the back of a bunch of guards there because I figured when it broke, I wanted to be the first one out that door. They’d...
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