Reach for the sky: the inspiring story of Tony Appleton, the British ‘Flying Man’
Dream big.
Television
Central irrelevance: when the CIA commissioned the most boring TV show ever
Turns out Spy-work isn’t like the movies.
“Weezy, get me some LSD!”: George Jefferson was a serious prog rock freak
Sherman Hemsley’s love of cosmic prog was no joke.
‘Poor Devil’: the forgotten 1973 TV film where Sammy Davis Jr worked for Satan
Co-starring Christopher Lee as a suave, red-jumpsuited Lucifer.
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’: The song famous by The Muppets was originally from a 1968 Italian softcore sex film
‘Mah Nà Mah Nà’ was written for an Italian sexploitation film.
Punk rockers, Bad Brains, and CBGB: Revisit a charming local news segment on hardcore, 1982
Bad Brains at CBGBs, baffled anchors, and all.
‘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”.
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.