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Is shoegaze the loneliest genre of music?

Christine Ro explores the connection between shyness and shoegaze.

  • Article

Rocking psychiatry with R D Laing

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Discover how six rock songs from the 1960s and 1970s link the ideas of famous therapist R D Laing with the era’s counterculture.

  • Long read

Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

  • Book extract

The 200-year search for normal people

Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.

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  • Our boys dancing at night to music of Maomedi's band
  • A music event organised by RockAIDS featuring a number of bands including The Real People. Photocopy.
  • Indian musicians playing their instruments. Gouache drawing.
  • John Mitchel striding to his trial in the middle of a marching band: the trombonist has accidentally knocked over the triangle-player in front. Letterpress and wood engraving after J. Leech, 1848.
  • Two rows of soldiers, English and Sikh. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • An ensemble of Burmese musicians playing traditional instruments at a funeral. Wood engraving, 1872, after H.G. Robley.
  • New Swindon Institution and market, Swindon, Yorkshire. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1854, after E. Roberts.
  • A military physician examines a bandsman who has a poorly foot and cannot march in time. Colour process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • New Spa buildings, Scarborough, Yorkshire: panoramic bird's eye view. Photolithograph, 1880, after Verity & Hunt.
  • A band is tuning up in a theatre; the stage curtain is inscribed "The autumn session 1890-1". Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 22 November 1890.
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