Valley girls. Quaaludes. Howard Cosell. K-tel Records. In today's pop-culture spin, the seventies and eighties rule--as evidenced by anything from Nickelodeon reruns to "Brady Bunch" movies. Now, at last, there's "Retro Hell", a sassy, knowing travelogue through the best and worst of these unforgettable decades, covering everything from Earth Shoes to "Schoolhouse Rock", Farrah Fawcett to eight tracks. 100 photos & illustrations.
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Valley girls. Quaaludes. Howard Cosell. K-tel Records. In today's pop-culture spin, the seventies and eighties rule--as evidenced by anything from Nickelodeon reruns to "Brady Bunch" movies. Now, at last, there's "Retro Hell", a sassy, knowing travelogue through the best and worst of these unforgettable decades, covering everything from Earth Shoes to "Schoolhouse Rock", Farrah Fawcett to eight tracks. 100 photos & illustrations.
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First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
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Back Bay Books
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1997
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English
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David J. High (Illustration) and Marc Tauss (Photo. Good. The format is approximately 7.5 inches by 9.25 inches. xii, 276 pages. Illustrations. Index. Cover has some wear, soiling and small chip. Introduction by Bruce Elliott. An alphabetical encyclopedia of 1970s and 1980s pop culture is at once a send up and celebration of the icons of the times, offering nearly one thousand entries that range from eight-tracks and Farrah Fawcett to Valley Girls and break dancing. Ben Is Dead was a Los Angeles-based zine published from 1988 through 1999. Its creator, Deborah "Darby" Romeo, got its name from a dream she had about her husband Ben, a Frenchman she divorced not long into the magazine's run. Romeo would later write that during the magazine's early days Ben found the title amusing, and would introduce himself to people as "Ben, from Ben is Dead." Today Ben Is Dead is perhaps best known for the three-part series of "Retro" issues, in which dozens of writers looked back at the trends and fads of their childhoods with a mix of nostalgia and horror. These issues were compiled into the sprawling book, Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s, From Afros to Zotz. In 1996, Romeo established the University of California, Los Angeles' "Darby Romeo Collection of Zines, " a permanent archive currently housed in UCLA's Arts Library Special Collections. Many of Ben is Dead's writers have continued their writing careers (Vaginal Davis writes for LA Weekly, Lisa Crystal Carver and Mikki Halpin have each written several books) including Romeo, who has penned articles for LA Weekly, Alternative Press, Vanity Fair, the Chicago Tribune and The Village Voice. From material found on-line: For 11 years-more than 30 issues published from 1988 through 1999-Ben Is Dead was the zine that offered a sure and brilliant glimpse into the then-mystifying world of alternative culture. Founded by Deborah "Darby" Romeo and featuring a revolving cast of writers and artists, each seeming more crassly erudite than the last, it felt indispensable. Edited and written by young women and a dazzling array of contributors from marginalized communities, issue by issue the LA-based magazine steadily established breakout appeal from its beginnings as a free black and white newsprint quarterly rooted in the regional music scene. This was a time when zines proliferated in the US, where cities and towns had spawned individual punk-inspired independent music circuits. Small circulation home-made print publications took their cue from the great DIY aesthetic of pioneering '70s titles such as Sniffin' Glue and provided a network of alternative media bringing the latest news on tours, record stores, venues, art galleries and films to young musicians and fans. By the early '90s, there were months-long gaps between issues, making the experience of encountering the latest BID all the more exciting, particularly when the subjects ranged from "Broke" and "Obsessions & Bad Habits" to "Modern Transmissions & Sensory Overload" and "Disinformation." Gaining international prominence ("I was mailing copies to people all over the world, " confirms Darby), BID became packed with ads from underground labels and the faux-indies which had been launched by the majors to cash in on the grunge boom, though the BID crew viewed the rise of the genre uneasily, and often mocked it for what it was: the corporate response to the messily organic grass roots movements in which they participated. Overtures came from none less than Vanity Fair, which appointed Darby and Kerin contributing editors with their fingers on the pulse of America's youth. Darby supported herself with a day job in the art department of the giant advertising agency Grey, and credits the publication's distinctive flavor to the team which gravitated around her. "We were a collection of weird people, in a good way, and without the internet we developed our own collective consciousness, " says Darby, "This was an amazing bunch who weren't falling for the mainstream, but...
