Serge Gainsbourg’s 1971 masterpiece transformed into a work of video art starring Jane Birkin.
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Danger! Low Voltage – Electric Six’s Album Of Lacklustre Cover Versions
The disco-rock miscreants return with an album of other people’s songs that offers nothing new to the original versions.
Sibylle Rauch – So Long And Goodbye To Tunefulness
The curious country and western song performed by the German sex symbol turned porn star.
Delia Derbyshire And Anthony Newley Get The Moogies Bloogies
An eccentric and ahead-of-its-time recording by two of the more interesting creative minds of the 1960s.
Marjoe Gortner, The False Prophet Who Exposed The Truth
The child preacher turned movie star tried to pull the rug from under evangelical con-men, but no one wanted to listen.
CED – The Video Format That Was Dead On Arrival
RCA’s unique vinyl-based video format arrived on the market too late to have any chance of success – but remains an intriguingly unique system.
Mah Na Mah Na – The Sound Of 1977
Forget Rod Stewart vs the Sex Pistols – this was the real battle for chart supremacy in the summer of 1977.
No Matter How Great You Think The Beatles Were, You’re Wrong. They Were Even Greater
Why the Fab Four really were fab.
Re-Tainted Love From Soft Cell
The Eighties classic of despair and desperation returns as a new recording in a fancy limited edition.
The Incomprehensible Appeal of The Cassette
Cassette tapes are having a rise in popularity and it makes no sense at all.
Julie’s Sixteenth Birthday – The Story Behind A Notorious Album Cover
Behind every Bad Album Cover is a record, often made with sincerity and naivety. Here is the tale behind one of the more infamous.
Raw Power – The Road Tapes Of Iggy And The Stooges
The legendary bootlegs and dubious live recordings of Iggy and the Stooges at their chaotic, disintegrating and provocative best, collected in one box set.