Gene Pitney: the all-American crooner adopted by the British invasion
Pitney carved out a unique place in pop history.
Author: Richard Metzger
‘Condensed Cream of the Beatles’: Future generations will watch this psychedelic rollercoaster to understand Beatlemania
Psychedelic Beatles short by Braverman, 1974.
New Age Steppers: the post‑punk dub supergroup nobody saw coming
Formed in 1980 by Adrian Sherwood and Ari Up.
‘Scum’: Nick Cave and poison‑pen revenge on a former friend
Meet the critic-turned-lyrical target in bared-teeth fury.
Salvador Dalí’s muse Amanda Lear in her first TV commercial, 1967
Already radiating the surreal, gender-fluid mystique Dalí adored.
The unexpected connection between William S Burroughs and The Beatles
Burroughs influenced Beatles’ recording experiments.
The obscure link between Mantan Moreland and the Beastie Boys
A reveal that recontextualizes a cult hip‑hop moment.
‘Love Exposure’: The sprawling Japanese cult masterpiece that you need to see before you die
Sin, perversion, cults, and rock‑opera levels of emotional overload.
Porn, drugs, rock and roll: The story of Les Rita Mitsouko, France’s greatest pop group
Les Rita Mitsouko combined punk pop, porn-star pasts.
‘Umano Non Umano’: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards turn up in pretentious Italian art film
Mario Schifano, an Italian pop art painter and collagist who exhibited alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, released this unusual art film, Umano Non Umano…