“In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelantine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed, co[…]

Recently Al Ewing and Sarah Peploe came into possession of a box set containing “18 uplifting classics” (end quote) from the cinematic oeuvre of Russ Meyer. Heedless of the consequences, they have taken it upon themselves to watch and review each[…]

What to say about this reggae supersmash not already said by Tom, and the army of comment crew enthusiast over on Popular. Ever angle of this amazing one hit wonder has been touched up, a worthy ten and a record that still sounds fresh as light as th[…]

The diagnosis came at the age of 2. My father had set me down some distance from the hives, handing me a jar of honey, and he went to tend the bees. Or “keep” them. I got stung as I sat there, and my little body swole up like a tomato. Th[…]

Nicholas Courtney, born in Egypt in 1929: spoke French and Arabic. My favourite regular Who character — and I doubt I’m alone in that.[…]

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… and the world will beat a path to your door” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Lake and Palmer*

Rare photo of official stage prop being repaired, April 1973. From ELP official band archive, via Flickr.
Photo credit: Richard Kneubuehler.
*I felt[…]

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Here’s a graph for you! It shows the average gap between the year of publication of an issue of Mojo and the year the cover star released their first album. The red line is a trendline of sorts, averaging out 5 years at a time.

As you can see,[…]

West Side Story’s message to homesick teenage Latinas: YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED in a really catchy and foot-tapping way