Sex and the (Vatican) City: did a pope write a porn novel?
Admit it, you’d read it, wouldn’t you?
Pop
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.
The Ladybirds: the bizarre story of two all-girl topless rock bands
Audacious, controversial, and defying gender norms on stage.
Easy Listening Acid Trip: An Elevator Ride through Sixties Psychedelic Pop
Author Joseph Lanza is an expert’s expert on some of the more enigmatic corners of popular and unpopular culture. In numerous books he’s written about…
‘The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette’: The 4 Seasons’ unheralded mini-masterpiece of vocal psych pop
Most people would probably be surprised to find that Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons recorded a musically ambitious concept album in 1969 that was…
Drink, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll: Power pop saviors, the Beat, and their rousing 1980 tour of Europe
Photo: Neil Zlozower Hey, do you know about the Beat? They’re the great power pop band led by Paul Collins, who was in another great…
The Subversive Pop Perfection of the Fun Boy Three: Live in Concert, 1983
The death of one form brings forth life in another. Something was going wrong. It wasn’t just with the band, it seemed to be happening…
Thirteen-year-old Mariangela and her adventurous pop album, produced by Vangelis, 1975
The mid 1970s pairing of Mariangela, a promising young singer/songwriter, and the Greek composer/musician/producer Vangelis might have seemed illogical on paper, but the result was…
The sensational, rarely heard avant-pop of Belgian artist, Jacques Charlier
For nearly sixty years, Belgian artist Jacques Charlier has been active in art in one form of another, and that includes music. In the 1980s,…