Author: Oliver Hall

Magazine ad for the 1962 World’s Fair The June 23, 1962 issue of Billboard reported that Capitol would be distributing “the Seattle World’s Fair official…

If you get sent up the river in California and you like to read about music, better stick to biographies of Tommy Dorsey and Rudy…

With a nickname like “the Red Rocker” and a home in the San Francisco Bay Area, could the Clash have mistaken Sammy Hagar for a…

A press photo from Negativland’s It’s All in Your Head Pastor Dick had good news to share on April 1, 1999. “This is a song…

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.…

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…

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,…

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 Dali, ‘Impressions of Africa’ (1938) The rambling plot of the movie Salvador Dalí made for West German public TV in 1976, Impressions of Upper…

One of Elvis’ favorite books, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, was the work of Manly Palmer Hall, a Los Angeles-based esotericist who tried to…