‘Crackerbox Palace’: George Harrison’s charming short directed by Monty Python’s Eric Idle
“The world is a very serious and at times very sad place”.
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‘Suzy Speedfreak, this is the voice of your conscience, baby’: Frank Zappa’s anti drugs PSAs
The voice of conscience—counterculture gone moral.
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.
‘Sibylle’: how East Germany produced its own ‘Vogue’ under socialism
Combining artful photography and sewing patterns under socialist constraints.
David Bowie, Dion Fortune, and the occult history of soymilk
Bowie’s diet broke Dion Fortune’s golden‑dawn guidebook rules.
The unexpected connection between William S Burroughs and The Beatles
Burroughs influenced Beatles’ recording experiments.