Vintage Pics of the Black Music Magazine Covers From the 1970s

Black Music (Black Music & Jazz Review from April 1978) was a pioneering British music magazine, published monthly. The first issue came out in December 1973 and the last in April 1984. It was the first publication in the United Kingdom to write about reggae as a serious cultural phenomenon and also the first to cover African music.

Black Music Magazine Covers in the 1970s

Under the 1978–1984 editorship of Chris May, the magazine also maintained extensive coverage of African music, which May had introduced as a freelance contributor in the mid 1970s with his Afroheat column.

In April 1984, Chris May left the magazine to head up the UK office of Celluloid Records. Following his departure, the title Black Music & Jazz Review (though not the editorial perspective) was absorbed by sister magazine Blues & Soul and ceased to exist other than as a small-print add-on to the BS masthead.

Here below are some vintage pics of the Black Music Magazine covers from the 1970s.

Marvin Gaye, January 1974

Albert King, March 1974

Tina Turner, May 1974

Curtis Mayfield, September 1974

Roberta Flack, October 1974

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Alice Cooper and Colonel Sanders: When Two Famous Killers of Chicken Meeting in Amsterdam, 1974

Not all things with wings can fly – a fact that Alice Cooper learned during his performance at the 1969 Toronto Rock & Roll Festival. During the show, a fan threw a live chicken onto the stage. Cooper responded by throwing the fowl into the air, expecting it to soar above the crowd. Instead, the chicken landed in the audience and was immediately ripped to shreds by the rabid crowd.

The incident became front-page news nationwide, with tabloids incorrectly reporting that the “shock rocker” had ripped the chicken’s head off and drank its blood. The next day of the incident, Zappa phoned Cooper and asked if the story was true. Cooper denied the rumor, whereupon Zappa told him, “Well, whatever you do, don’t tell anyone you didn’t do it.”

Stemming from the infamous chicken incident, at some time in 1974, Cooper managed to be in the same room with Colonel Sanders, Harland David Sanders, the founder and face of Kentucky Fried Chicken while they were both at the same hotel doing PR in Amsterdam.

During an interview which was taped for a showing of the film Super Duper Alice Cooper in 2014, Cooper answered a question about his meeting Colonel Sanders in the 1970s:

“Here comes this nice old man in a white suit. Suddenly I realize that this is the Hannibal Lecter of chickens. I have the death of exactly one chicken on my hands, and this guy has a score of 10 billion. Yet everyone loves this guy, and hates me for being a chicken killer! The irony of the two of us being in the same room at the same time was not lost on either me or the Colonel.”

A Ham Radio Operator Using a Teletype Model 15, 1963

Here’s a picture of a ham radio operator using a Teletype Model 15 paired with a Morse key. American ham radio stations have always had the nicest operators in their radio shacks. Picture taken in 1963.

An amateur radio (ham radio) operator is someone who uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other amateur operators on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service. Amateur radio operators have been granted an amateur radio license by a governmental regulatory authority after passing an examination on applicable regulations, electronics, radio theory, and radio operation. As a component of their license, amateur radio operators are assigned a call sign that they use to identify themselves during communication. There are about three million amateur radio operators worldwide.

Amateur radio operators are also known as radio amateurs or hams. The term “ham” as a nickname for amateur radio operators originated in a pejorative usage (like “ham actor”) by operators in commercial and professional radio communities, and dates to wired telegraphy. The word was subsequently adopted by amateur radio operators.

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16 Amazing Pics of the Children's Book “Cinderella or the Glass Slipper” in 1896

A set of amazing pics from Richard that shows 16 pages of the children's book Cinderella or the Glass Slipper in 1896.

Copyright and published by George D. Hurst, New York, 1896. 10-5/8 x 8-1/8 inches. 16 pages. Front page and back page are paper. All other pages are linen.

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50 Gorgeous Photos of Natalie Wood While Filming “Gypsy” in 1962

Gypsy is a 1962 American musical comedy-drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass is based on the book of the 1959 stage musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable by Arthur Laurents, which was adapted from Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee.

Gypsy was a financial success. Produced on a budget of $4 million, the film grossed $11,076,923 at the box office, earning $6 million in US theatrical rentals. It was the 9th highest-grossing film of 1962.

These gorgeous photos captured portrait of Natalie Wood while filming Gypsy in 1962.

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30 Adorable Candid Photographs of Drew Barrymore When She Was a Child in the 1980s

Barrymore’s professional career began at 11 months, when she auditioned for a dog food commercial. She was nipped by her canine co-star, to which she merely laughed and was hired for the job. After her film debut with a small role in Altered States (1980), she played Gertie in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), directed by Steven Spielberg. He felt that she had the right imagination for her role after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band. E.T. is the highest-grossing film of the 1980s and made her one of the most famous child actors of the time. For her work, she won a Young Artist Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In the 1984 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, Barrymore played a girl with pyrokinesis who becomes the target of a secret government agency known as The Shop. The same year, she played a young girl divorcing her famous parents in Irreconcilable Differences, for which she was nominated for her first Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert stated, “Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm.”

Barrymore endured a troubled youth and continued to act intermittently during the decade. She starred in the 1985 anthology horror film Cat’s Eye, also written by Stephen King. The film received positive reviews and Barrymore was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Leading Young Actress. She starred alongside Jeff Bridges and Alice Krige in the 1989 romantic comedy See You in the Morning. Vincent Canby of The New York Times criticized the “fashionable phoniness” of the film, but positively singled out Barrymore for her performance. After her twelve-day rehab treatment at ASAP, Barrymore starred in Far from Home (1989) as a teenager who gets stranded with her father in the small town in a remote part of the desert. The film went largely unnoticed by audiences and received negative reviews from critics, who dismissed the sexual portrayal of her role.

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Fascinating Photos of the Fonda Family From the 1940s to 1980s

With generations of talented actors, one could hardly ever forget a family as famous as the Fondas: from the patriarch Henry Fonda, to daughter, Oscar-winning actress Jane Fonda, son, Oscar-nominated actor Peter Fonda, and granddaughter Bridget Fonda. Here are 22 photographs capture Henry, Jane and Peter from the 1940s to 1980s:

Henry Fonda with his young daughter Jane, playing with a sailing boat in a swimming pool, circa 1945. Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos.

Henry Fonda standing with Peter Fonda, while Frances Brokaw, Frances Fonda and Jane Fonda sitting beside, 1948. Photo by Peter Stackpole/LIFE.

The Fonda family, Peter Fonda, Frances Fonda, Jane Fonda, Frances de Villers Brokaw and Henry Fonda, enjoy a picnic in 1949. Photo by Genevieve Naylor/Corbis.

The Fonda family, Peter Fonda, Frances Fonda, Jane Fonda, Frances de Villers Brokaw and Henry Fonda, enjoy a picnic in 1949. Photo by Genevieve Naylor/Corbis.

Henry Fonda and his family posing smilingly before boarding a Lai-Italian Airlines plane at Idlewild Airport to fly to Rome, 1957. Photo by Bettmann.

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