Tag: nostalgic news
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Nostalgic News: The Hunger Games turns 15!
Holly Allwright celebrates 15 years of The Hunger Games
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Nostalgic News: Duran Duran’s ‘Come Undone’ at Thirty
Duran Duran’s fame was waning in the 1990s. They hit the very height of their fame in the mid-1980s, when they performed at Live Aid, composed the titular theme tune for the 1985 James Bond film A View to a Kill (which also went to number one in the US Charts), and split into two […]
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Nostalgic News: Bestselling Memoir Educated by Tara Westover Turns 5 This Year!
Westover’s memoir follows her own journey as she grows up in a fundamentalist, survivalist and Mormon family in Idaho. Her father constituted the patriarchal lead of the house over her six siblings, her mother and herself and his rules was stringent. ‘Gene’ (not his real name) believed in an incoming doomsday and as such avoided […]
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Nostalgic News: Lorde’s ‘The Love Club’ Turns Ten!
Records editor Mollie Potter looks back on Lorde’s ‘The Love Club’ a decade after its release.
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Bastille’s ‘Bad Blood’ was released Ten Years Ago!
Ten years ago I was wearing black skinny jeans, a denim jacket, and a pair of dirty white converse. I wanted to go to Leeds University, I listened to To Kill A King, and I watched Twin Peaks; all because I loved Bastille- my original influencers. Bastille was the first band I loved because their […]
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Nostalgic news: Our favourite releases from the ’80s
The best books, movies, and albums from the decade!
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80’s Icons and their Legacies
The people who made the eighties!
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Nostalgic News: Whitney Houston’s ‘I Have Nothing’ – 30 years on!
30 years later, ‘I Have Nothing’, one of Whitney Houston’s most enduring songs still continues to captivate listeners just as it did when first released, with Houston’s pristine vocals, the song’s bittersweet lyrics, and a majestically resounding instrumental all assembling to create this classic track. The lyrics describe a relationship that is nearing its end, […]
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Nostalgic News: Adele’s ‘19’ Turns 15!
The glory of Adele begins with ‘19’. Her debut studio album, named after the age she was during its production and release, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Winning a Grammy earlier this month for Best Pop Solo Performance for ‘Easy on Me’ amongst incredible competition from artists such as Doja Cat (‘Woman’), Lizzo (‘About […]
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Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was released 30 years ago!
Thirty years ago, the third part of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy opened to wide release, in a radically different style from the previous films. Army of Darkness is set in the Middle Ages, where Bruce Campbell’s eternally suffering Ash Williams must become a hero to defend against an army of the undead, brought to […]
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Nostalgic News: Normal People by Sally Rooney Turns 5!
A contemporary classic, Normal People was published five years ago in August of 2018 as the second novel by Irish novelist Sally Rooney. It quickly took the world by storm having now sold more than one million copies worldwide in 46 different languages on top of the creation of the award-winning television series of the […]
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Nostalgic News: Allegiant by Veronica Roth Turns 10!
As the finale to a massively popular YA dystopian trilogy (Divergent), Allegiant by Veronica Roth will always hold a special place in my heart. I think we can all agree this book is heart-shattering, frustrating and cruel — but in the best way. The present-tense, first-person narrative makes you feel as though you are right […]
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Nostalgic News: Duran Duran’s ‘Duran Duran’ Turns thirty!
Known as ‘The Wedding Album’ by many fans, both due to its cover featuring the wedding photos of the band members’ parents, and to avoid confusion with their 1981 debut album of the same title, 1993’s Duran Duran was a comeback album for a band that many believed had peaked in the 1980s. Following […]
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The Spiderwick Chronicles was released 15 years ago!
While researching The Spiderwick Chronicles, a beloved childhood film of mine, I came to the conclusion that I must’ve been a very sensitive child, because nowhere is this film described as a horror, yet in 2008, I was absolutely scared out of my skin by this fantasy film. The plot follows twins Jared and Simon […]