‘Moonhead’: The night Pink Floyd soundtracked the moon landing
A momentous event.
Author: Martin Schneider
Articles by Author: Martin Schneider
Superman vs the Ku Klux Klan: the real-life story that thwarted white supremacists
Helping to dismantle their power in the real world.
‘Sibylle’: how East Germany produced its own ‘Vogue’ under socialism
Combining artful photography and sewing patterns under socialist constraints.
Of hippies, ducks and capitalist pigs: Jefferson Airplane’s acid-drenched Levi’s commercials
It’s whimsical, strange, and almost certainly unreleased.
Lou Reed said “The Beatles were garbage” and The Doors were “stupid”
In a 1987 interview, Lou Reed delivered a savage takedown.
‘Spectropia’: the surreal 19th-century method of conjuring demons and ghosts
Victorian debunking art dressed as occult magic.
Hell on Wheels: Raw colour photos of New York’s subway in the 1970s and ’80s
Willy Spiller’s subway photography in Hell on Wheels.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, The Beatles, and the acid-soaked origin of ‘She Said She Said’
A night of 1960s extravagance when acid met celebrity in Gabor’s living room.
Robert Plant is still embarrassed by his “does anybody remember laughter” ad-lib
The track he insists he can’t listen to without cringing.
Gorgeous covers of the Japanese magazine ‘Teen Look’ from the 1960s
When the Japanese decide to do something right, they really do it right.