‘You Forget to Answer’: Nico sings about her former lover Jim Morrison
A song that sounds like it was written by ghosts, for ghosts.
Drugs
Abbie Hoffman’s mournful memory of watching Janis Joplin shoot up
“She was the only person I ever saw use a needle”.
‘Suzy Speedfreak, this is the voice of your conscience, baby’: Frank Zappa’s anti drugs PSAs
The voice of conscience—counterculture gone moral.
“100,000 tabs of acid”: Lemmy’s infamous interview about touring with Jimi Hendrix and having sex with a trans person
One legendary night in San Francisco.
‘Let It Snow’: the shameless cocaine adverts of the 1970s
Posters that openly promoted illicit substances.
Zsa Zsa Gabor, The Beatles, and the acid-soaked origin of ‘She Said She Said’
A night of 1960s extravagance when acid met celebrity in Gabor’s living room.
Perpetual Pills: the bonkers reusable laxatives of the Middle Ages
They were washed, re‑coated, and used dozens of times by doctors.
Raw, brutal, and intimate photos depict the 1980s ‘heroin epidemic’ of New York’s East Village
Images that challenge our respect and empathy.
Nina Hagen’s ‘NunSexMonkRock’: The weirdest, greatest unsung masterpiece of the post‑punk era
A post‑punk freak‑show.