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The First CORONAVISION Song Contest Final : May 16th
2020 will therefore be the very first year since 1956 not to have a Eurovision Contest. For those of you who for some reason have never ever watched the World’s Campiest Annual TV Show you should know it has 184 million viewers i.e. that’s double the Super Bowl audience. Admitting that you are not…
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BUFFALO :30 years later and still as relevant to fashion today as it was back in the 1980s.
Buffalo was the collective name of a group of young photographers, stylists and models under the guidance of stylist Ray Petri. They changed the whole approach to the imagery of mens and some women’s fashion in the media. Especially working with 80’s trendy fashion/cultural magazines, The Face, I-D and Arena. Petri was born in…
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Laurie Lee : London’s Bona Queen of Fabulosity in 1970’s & 80’s
When the late Laurie Lee was a Drag Queen in London in the 1970’s & 1980’s , life was much simpler. ‘Lol’ as he like to be called had done his National Service which was still compulsory in those days and he did a stint in the Merchant Navy where finding a ‘partner’ was…
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Freddy McConnell : The Dad Who Gave Birth
30 year Brit Freddy McConnell always wanted to be a parent and the fact that he is a transman was never going to stop him. He entrusted his friend Filmmaker Jeanie Finlay with the task of filming his journey in such a non-sensationalised way so that he could share all the trials and tribulations of…
