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oldschoolcelebrities: Nina Simone After dropping out of Julliard for lack of funds, Simone turned to jazz, blues, and folk music which she played in Atlanta’s clubs during the 1950s. She turned into a loud voice within the Civil Rights Movement of the 60′s releasing songs such as “Mississippi Goddamn” which was in response to the assassination of Medgar Evers. In response to Martin Luther King Jr’s death, she released “Why the King of Love is Dead.”

oldschoolcelebrities: Candice Bergen, 1960s

soundsof71: Alice Cooper in Hollywood, 1974, by Neal Preston for Creem

bitchtoss: Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love photographed by Michael Lavine - 1992

emberz: The main cast of “The Wiz” (1978)

msmildred: Sophia Loren, c. 1954.

wehadfacesthen: Marlene Dietrich at the April in Paris Ball, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, 1959, photo by Elliot Erwitt

missadler1897: Backstage at the MTV Rock & Comedy Concert at Battery Park in New York City on 10th May, 2002. Photo by Frank Micelotta.

twixnmix: JET Magazine covers from 1971

retropopcult: Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, and baby Rumer, 1988

justseventeen: December 1990. ‘Like the town she is named after, Winona is petite and quite lovely,’

oldschoolcelebrities: Jessica Lange, 1974