Layout4 – The Retrospectors

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
The Return Of 'The Scream'
DAY BEFORE:
Duran Duran's James Bond Banger
DAY BEFORE THAT:
Jerry Lewis vs The Holocaust
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
Mussolini's Last Day on Earth

ON PREVIOUS DAYS:

YESTERDAY:
The Return Of 'The Scream'
DAY BEFORE:
Duran Duran's James Bond Banger
DAY BEFORE THAT:
Jerry Lewis vs The Holocaust
DAY BEFORE BEFORE THAT:
Mussolini's Last Day on Earth

OLLY MANN

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REBECCA MESSINA

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ARION MCNICOLL

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11 May: Dynasty's Flamboyant Finale

With big hair, big drama, and even bigger shoulder pads, Aaron Spelling’s primetime soap-opera ‘Dynasty’ defined the 1980s. But, by May 11th, 1989, the show’s popularity was waning - and, even though the showrunners didn’t know it, ABC broadcast what was to be its final episode. The nine-season saga chronicled…

7 May: The Return Of 'The Scream'

The theft of Edvard Munch’s iconic painting ‘The Scream’ sullied the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer - but, on 7th May, 1994, the iconic work was recovered. The painting, which has been stolen multiple times, was returned on this occasion thanks to the involvement of Britain’s Metropolitan…

6 May: Duran Duran's James Bond Banger

A View To A Kill by Duran Duran was released on 6th May, 1985. It remains the only James Bond theme to reach Number One on the Billboard Hot 100. To get the gig, bassist John Taylor reportedly approached Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli at a party and bluntly asked…

30 Apr: Jerry Lewis vs The Holocaust

The Day the Clown Cried, Jerry Lewis’s notorious, unreleased Holocaust movie, faced a crisis on 30th April, 1972, when the American actor-director found himself in an extraordinary predicament: the financing for his deeply personal film project had collapsed mid-shoot. Faced with abandoning the production or funding it himself, Lewis chose…

27 Apr: Mussolini's Last Day on Earth

Benito Mussolini was captured by partisans on 27th April, 1945, whilst attempting a hopeless escape to Switzerland, ‘disguised’ in a Luftwaffe coat and helmet alongside his much-younger mistress, Clara Petacci. Hiding in plain sight was never going to work for a man who had spent years building a cult of…

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