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“In a day we’ll know, oh we’ll know, yes we’ll know‘Bout a heart that’s strong and a mind that is wrongTake my hand and see all the things you can be.”“Brighter Day” 1976 was a fascinating year in America. It ...

There’s a lot that can change in a decade. This is nowhere more apparent than in the world of entertainment. Both music and film touch upon trends and events that shape their respective time periods. When it came to the ...

Fabian is still probably best known for his (relatively) brief heyday as a pop star - specifically the year 1959 when he had three top ten hits - "Turn Me Loose", "Tiger", and "Hound Dog Man". Yet he also had a career as a motion picture leading man that spanned over a decade. It's one that is worth revisiting.

Cabaret Voltaire Don’t Argue Girl with Gun The art of storytelling is one that is not necessarily defined by harsh, dyed-in-the-wool lines but by watercolor smears, oil-black-swoops, wet-inky-lines, blood, sweat, and most definitely tears. (When This Mortal Coil titled one ...

Since the early 2000s, there has been a small but steady flow of Bollywood film music compilations packed with fantastic funk, go-go, disco, and even the occasional traditional number. Many of these have been assembled by UK-based DJs, Indian or ...

“Tell me how you want it. And that’s how we’ll play it” “Up From the Deep”-The Tubes In the wilds of the United States, in the middle-of-the-back-road small cities, the big towns, and even the little burgs, there’s always a ...

Life can’t be all hacking through the jungle with a machete or leading a team of frogmen in a suicide mission attempt to sabotage an enemy U-boat. Sometimes, you find yourself slipping out of your shoulder holster (don’t worry — ...

In February 2019 I received an invitation to a film screening and director Q and A session at Islington’s Everyman Screen on the Green cinema. There’s nothing particularly unusual in that for horror film blogger you might think, however the ...

Love songs can be some of the worst things on Earth. I’m talking pure grade schmaltz. Solo love in an elevator, which will only end in tears and a possible police arrest. Is that any way to live life? No. ...

Few figures in Western culture possess such knee-jerk, ookie-spooky clout as the Devil. Excuse me. THE Devil! Christian believers get nervous, metalheads get excited, and if you’re that one goblet wielding Dapper Dan from Sam Dunn’s incredible 2005 documentary, Metal: ...