Enraged Krautrock manager destroys table with a hatchet on live TV, 1971
You don’t need to know German to appreciate this clip. It happened on the WDR program “Ende Offen” on December 3, 1971, during a discussion…
Author: Martin Schneider Archives: 04/2016
‘Shame’: Just what you needed, a Christian ‘parody’ of David Bowie’s ‘Fame’
The YouTube account with the handle TheParodyQueen is dedicated to Christian parodies of popular songs. As the Queen describes herself, she’s “a wacky blonde who…
Stained glass windows of Aleister Crowley, Serge Gainsbourg, Johnny Cash, JG Ballard & many more
In 2010 and 2011 the English artist Neal Fox executed an utterly gorgeous series of stained-glass windows in imitation of the iconography of saints found…
‘Star Tract’: Demented Christian ‘Star Trek’ parody
“Star Tract” is a low-budget parody of Star Trek (the original series) in which Kirk, Spock, and Scotty roam the universe in search of godless…
Captain Beefheart meets David Lynch in ‘Some YoYo Stuff’
In the early 1990s Anton Corbijn made a peculiar short movie called “Some YoYo Stuff” featuring Don Van Vliet, a.k.a. Captain Beefheart. The movie is…
‘The biggest thing since World War III’: Lou Reed, Debbie Harry, and Iggy Pop talk ‘Rock and Rule’
The 1983 animated rock and roll movie Rock and Rule was a failure at the box office but found its audience on cable TV a…
Watch Pink Floyd make an early appearance on American television, 1967
By 1967 Pink Floyd was a significant presence on the UK rock scene. In the autumn of that year the group made its first trip…
Around the world with Modesty Blaise, ‘England’s fabulous, feminine answer to James Bond’
Doubleday hardcover, 1965 The 1960s were rife with super-duper-glamorous spies, weren’t they? James Bond was one of the earliest and also the best-known. Ian Fleming…