Author: Oliver Hall

Jack Jones sang the theme song to The Love Boat from 1977 until 1985. Love was life’s sweetest reward; all was right with the world.…

During the summer of ’77, the new wave band Celia and the Mutations released its first single, an update of Tommy James and the Shondells’…

While waiting for the third volume of Simon Callow’s Orson Welles biography to arrive in the mail, I’ve been watching a number of movies by…

Before they were Sparks, brothers Ron and Russell Mael were teenagers growing up in Pacific Palisades. More than the sunbeams, they bathed in the sound…

Even if you’ve never seen one of Emilio Fernandez’s movies—even if you’ve never seen him in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch or Bring Me the…

Andy Warhol and Mario Montez filming Hedy (via Continuo) On the night of January 27, 1966, the actress Hedy Lamarr was arrested for stealing $86…

Members of the Los Angeles Free Music Society, 1976 (photo courtesy of The Box LA and Fredrik Nilsen Studio) In 2012, the Los Angeles Free…

Collage by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, c. 1965 (via Print) What’s that, friend? You say you’d like to consult the I Ching, but…

Public Image Ltd live at the Palladium, NYC, April 20, 1980 (photo by Rob Pistella via Fodderstompf) I confess that I haven’t yet read Jah…

“Side Tracks – 17 October 1964 – Detroit, Michigan” by Bob Dylan (via Halcyon Gallery) Seeing both Bob Dylan and Vincent Van Gogh in the…