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  • 1Heyday — Hey day , n. [Prob. for. high day. See High, and {Day}.] The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness. [1913 Webster] The heyday in the blood is tame. Shak. [1913 Webster] In the heyday of their victories …

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  • 2The Zap — is a dance club in Brighton that became famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s, for large acid house dance parties that were held there, for example Tonka, with DJ Harvey, Choci and Rev (Mondays), Protechtion (Fridays) with DJ Eric Powell, and… …

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  • 3The Thekla (Old Profanity Showboat) — The Old Profanity Showboat was a late 1982 middle of the night brainchild of Ki Longfellow Stanshall, the wife of Vivian Stanshall. The showboat was based on the idea of creating, owning, and running a theatre on a sea going ship and using it to… …

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  • 4The Record of Singing — is the most important compilation of singing from the first half of the 20th century, the era of the 78 rpm record.It was published by EMI, successor to the British company His Master s Voice (better known as HMV), the leading organization in the …

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  • 5The Film Music Society — The Film Music Society, Inc. (formerly the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, Inc.) is a non profit educational organization based in Los Angeles. It was founded in 1983 by film historian musicologist, William H. Rosar, the year that the …

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  • 6The Rex, Berkhamsted — The Rex is an art deco cinema (designed by David Nye in 1936) that was opened in 1938 in Berkhamsted, England, and closed in 1988. Although it had protected building status the cinema s state deteriorated, a local man, James Hannaway, devised a… …

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  • 7The Effigies — are considered one of the most important [http://www.mp3.com/effigies/artists/19717/biography.html] early punk rock groups in Chicago in the 1980s. The band, first formed in 1980, was active for approximately a decade, undergoing multiple… …

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  • 8The Film-Makers' Cooperative — aka The New American Cinema Group is an artist run, non profit organization which was founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, and other filmmakers to distribute avant garde films… …

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  • 10heyday — hey•day [[t]ˈheɪˌdeɪ[/t]] n. 1) the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.; prime: the heyday of the silent movies[/ex] 2) archaic high spirits Sometimes, hey′dey . Etymology: 1580–90; var. of high day, appar. by confusion… …

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