Ex-Strangler Hugh Cornwell has an internet radio show about film history and movie music
Hugh Cornwell, who was once the lead singer and guitarist in the Stranglers, has a new internet radio show devoted to movies and their music.…
Author: Oliver Hall Archives: 08/2017
‘Dark Avenger’: The brief heavy metal career of Orson Welles
After the breakup of the Dictators, the New York proto-punk band Richard Meltzer credited with returning “THE SPIRIT OF WRESTLING” to rock and roll, their…
Elvis Presley’s adventures in yoga and Eastern mysticism
Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and Larry Geller on the set of ‘Spinout’ (via Bodhi Tree.com) In the spring of 1964, Elvis’ hairdresser, Larry Geller,…
Etched in Acid: TV news reports from Summer of Love-era SF show how gross the hippies could be
Victor Moscoso, ‘Incredible Poetry Reading’ The Bay Area’s CBS affiliate, KPIX, aired special reports on the hippie phenomenon in 1967: “The Maze: Haight/Ashbury,” a tour…
Salvador Dalí goes in search of a psychedelic mushroom in ‘Impressions of Upper Mongolia’
Salvador Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…