Tag: 1970’s
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah stirs up happy memories of the 1970’s Mods music scene reviewing The Pebble And The Boy
The four-year period from 1978 to 1982 was probably the most fertile period in British music history. A complete soundclash of music genres peaked and ruled the airwaves, including punk, new wave, disco, Two-Tone, new romantic, heavy metal, and of course the late 70’s Mod revival. A bleak UK political and economic landscape plus…
BEYOND ‘There’s Always A Black Issue Dear’
Growing up in an English Orphanage in the 1950s and 1960s there was always black and bi-racial children in my ‘family’ who were also my good friends. However, when I came out as gay in the 1970s in London I had somehow been adopted by a new group of friends who were primarily. It…
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco
The illustrator and fashion maverick Antonio Lopez was an extraordinary legendary cultural figure in the 1970’s whose name will hardly resound at all with most people these days, but to a whole clique of the famous fashion and creative souls who lined up to be interviewed for this new documentary, he was nothing less than…
54 : The Directors Cut
The movie opens with a very hunky bare chested young man in a New York street late at night trying to cover up and keep warm. You can hear him start to explain. “I’m not going to bullshit you, it was the greatest party in the history of the world. My boss said the road…
