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the week the disco died
First Donna Summer, now Robin Gibb. If she was the Queen of Disco, the Bee Gees were certainly the Kings, and as relevant to the history of dance music as she was. This is actually remarkable considering the Bee Gees were a band who had initially made a name for themselves as pop music balladeers
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the mod father of hair: vidal sasson
With a few snip of the shears back in the 1960′s, Vidal Sassoon changed the way women wore their hair. From Mary Quant’s youthquaking mod bob to the fragile pixie worn by Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby , Vidal’s vision of a world devoid of fussy updos, hair curlers and too much hairspray became the
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Monkee See, Beatle Do
Like many kids in my generation, I first met “The Monkees” when MTV began airing episodes in the late 1980′s. Later on when I really got into the Beatles, I saw the obvious parallels between the Monkees and the Fab Four, in particular, the later’s performance in their movie, Help!. But my then-burgeoning love of
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Peace. Love. & Soul.
I wasn’t yet cognizant during the golden age of “Soul Train” but I was fortunate enough to catch all of those early 70′s-era episodes on late night television many years later (being a night owl has its privileges). Back then, I tuned in for the outfits; bizarre and bold and epically over-the-top, those hot pants
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