As the 90s revival continues to dominate the high street this summer, it comes as no surprise that the bucket hat should be decreed cool again. Yes, really.
No longer the headwear of choice of toddlers on the beach, the bucket hat - identified by its sloping brim - made it onto the spring/summer 2016 catwalks of Tommy Hilfiger and Alexander Wang, and has consequently filtered down to the high street. Read More...
When singer David Lee Roth announced he was leaving legendary rock band Van Halen in 1985, it left the group without their charismatic and outspoken frontman.
Actor Valerie Bertinelli, who was married to Eddie Van Halen at the time, wrote in her 2008 memoir Losing It that Van Halen was distraught after Roth’s departure. “Dave doesn’t want to come back,” she remembered her husband saying. “I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do. Read More...
This documentary about Sylvester Stallone leaves a lot unsaid. But it does get at the heart of his career. I was never much of a Sylvester Stallone fan as a kid. I was certainly the right age when his Rocky and Rambo sequels were coming out in the 1980s, but that brand of aggressive, muscle-bound machismo, which found favor in an America eager to refight the battles of the ’60s and ’70s, I found off-putting; Sly and some of his ’roided-up imitators seemed like flesh-and-blood manifestations of reactionary, Reaganite rage. Read More...