1980s

Writers need stability to nurture their talent and unfetter their imagination. Too much chaos dilutes the talent and diminishes the productivity. Writers like Norman Mailer…

This is a rather long introduction to the video below in which Lou Reed verbally pistol whips a founding member of the New Music Seminar.…

In this fantastic excerpt from the legendary Dutch TV documentary about old school hip hop, Big Fun In The Big Town, a young Grandmaster Flash…

As Britain prepares for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for Her Majesty, here is The Queen is Dead – Derek Jarman’s Super 8 film triptych (made…

Lapsed Catholic Stiv Bators with Brooke Shields. A must-see interview with Stiv Bators which aired in March of 1986 on Cleveland’s longest running cable music…

Another curio from the Jim Henson vaults, this time the audition tape of a 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly for the 1986 cult classic Labyrinth. You gotta…

”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symbiotic. Jean-Michel thought he needed Andy’s fame, and Andy…

O, Vincent Price – wasn’t he fab? He had this terrific ability to sound both menacing and amused at the same time. It was part…

Halloween 1986 The Dead Boys re-unite and tear the roof off of The Ritz. Stiv Bators, Cheetah Chrome, Jimmy Zero, Jeff Magnum and Johnny Blitz…

Originally broadcast in 1986 in the UK, The South Bank Show’s Velvet Underground documentary was directed by Kim Evans with the help of Mary Harron.…