On a spring day in 1974, I was visiting at a friend’s house in Beverly Hills whose parents were famous musicians. I was a big fan of their work and I was acting cool and collected, holding back from gushing, when their neighbors dropped by to talk about what to wear to the … [Read more...]
#OnThisDay74: A Big Dick Leaves the White House
Photograph from Richard Nixon Presidential Library Archive On June 17, 1972, a band of bungling burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Building, but it took more than two years before the scandal forced a President … [Read more...]
Flashback 1974: William S Burroughs Endorses Mr Peanut for Mayor
Vincent Trasov, as Mr Peanut, the Planters mascot, ran for mayor in the 1974 Vancouver Civic Election with no less a luminary than Naked Lunch author William S Burroughs stumping for him. He didn't win, of course, despite such auspicious endorsement, but he did get 2,685 votes. … [Read more...]
Flashback 1974
Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant in drag with folky British singer-songwriter Roy Harper at Harper's concert with the Intergalactic Elephant Band at The Rainbow in London. Led Zeppelin and Keith Moon played with Harper's band that night. (Photo: t/y Louis) … [Read more...]
Period Piece: Breaking Bad‘s Mike in a 1974 PSA on Menstruation
Jonathan Banks, who portrayed the bald, now-dead character Mike Ehrmantraut on Breaking Bad, is Johnny Stanton, the thick-haired boyfriend of 15-year-old Judy who has just gotten her period in this lengthy PSA financed by the Creative Artists Public Service Program of the New … [Read more...]
Flashback 1974
John Lennon and Mick Jagger, photographed by Ron Galella. (via Awesome People Hanging Out Together) … [Read more...]
Flashback: Lou Reed Talks to the Press, 1974
On the eve of the release of the Lou Reed-Metallica collaborative album Lulu, their nightmarish, ear-splitting, scathingly reviewed take on Frank Wedekind's 1920s play about a social-climbing … [Read more...]
Snap!
David Bowie performing as Ziggy Stardust on a TV in a room at the Delmonico Hotel in New York, 1974. (Photo by Henry Diltz) … [Read more...]
