1980s
A portrait of Los Angeles at the turn of the 1980s
Behind the glamour — In the exhibition Los Angeles Cibachromes, photographer John Humble peels back the city’s glitzy facade.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle: life lessons from a punk pioneer
‘I thought I was going to die’ — The Buzzcocks guitarist reflects on life, death, and the group’s indelible legacy: ‘I joined a punk band and was sniffing speed. The world fucking changed’
Written by: Jeremy Allen
Photos of Houston's famed Fourth Ward in the 1980s
Heart and soul — In 1985, photographer Elbert D. Howze captured the residents of Freedmen’s Town, a community founded in 1866 by people liberated from the shackles of chattel slavery.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Anne Pigalle: life lessons from the ultimate punk polymath
‘I was a bit weird’ — The cult French artist, who is gearing up to release her first full-length album in over three decades, takes us on a tour through London’s Soho.
Written by: Jeremy Allen
Forgotten shots of Europe’s underground music legacy
From the ’70s and ’80s — Freshly uncovered after two decades in storage, Bruno Stettler’s photography showcases the biggest stars of the 1970s and ’80s.
Written by: Miss Rosen
Back in the day: photos of Liverpool in the 1980s
Street style — Photographer Rob Bremner captures a city brimming with character and style; filled with people living defiantly in the face of difficulty.
Written by: Jonathan Turton
The Yippie Pie Man, America’s unlikely hero of the radical left
Crème de la crème — From anti-abortion protestors to Andy Warhol: legendary activist Aron Kay looks back on a lifetime of political pie-throwing.
Written by: Tom Hale
Uncovering the world’s largest collection of drug ephemera
The LSD library — A compulsive collector since the 1970s, Julio Mario Santo Domingo has accrued nearly three house’s worth of literature, knick-knacks and paraphernalia – covering everything from cocaine to opium, black magick to beat poetry, erotica to romanticism.
Written by: Alex Robert Ross
The blind recluse who became a secret synth pioneer
Pauline Anna Strom — Blind since birth and reclusive by nature, Pauline Anna Strom’s spacey electronic music has been building a cult following for decades – but she remains little-known in the mainstream music world.
Written by: Cady Siregar
Inside the best dressed gang of 1980s New York
Lo-Life: An American Classic — The streets of 1980s New York City were rough, and the fashion obsessed Lo-Life crew were at its heart, desperate to look good by any means necessary.
Written by: Sophie Church