His silly, vaudeville-style variety show was filled with his piano playing, skits, puppets and guest stars like Cyndi Lauper and Bon Jovi.

Go-go boots—knee-high, often white patent leather, with low heels—were what young women actually wore to dances, parties, and ...

The 1960s were a decade of bold style, cultural revolutions, and everyday items that seemed absolutely essential at the time.

Do you ever just want to get up off your grey sofa—the one with the indent of you behind squarely in the center—and shake your groove thang? Do you ever just want to dance? Whether anyone is around or ...

Sparked by the seismic cultural shift of the 1960s – what Vogue editor Diana Vreeland dubbed the ''Youthquake'' – a new wave of models redefined beauty and fame almost overnight. With their ...

Picking a “first dance” isn’t always easy. While some couples have one song they claim as their own, others rely on popularity to decide what they will dance to on one of the most important days of ...

Seventies style has come back with such force, it has completely changed our summer closets. We’ve embraced flared jeans. We love our platform clogs. We dream of nothing but boho blouses. And as fall ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Who is one of the enduring bands from the British Invasion of the 1960s, and in their 1973 album Quadrophenia and its subsequent 1979 film, they captured the brief flourish of Mod culture and the ...

But the brightest dazzle was on stage, in Paris Fitzpatrick’s star-making performance. As hero Jimmy – a mod wannabe in 1960s London, searching for his tribe – Fitzpatrick (who first made a mark in ...

Our Soul Brew regulars - plus lots of new faces too - thoroughly enjoyed the last 1960s Mod night that we did at The Harold Club in April & all were left wanting more, so we promised that we would ...

Just as Pet Shop Boys took inspiration from the well-dressed Italian youth subculture for their excellent 1986 B-side ‘Paninaro’, Pete Townshend tapped into the Mod zeitgeist of 1960s Britain with ...