The History of Rock

Part 6: Pink Floyd

Since their formation in 1967 as the result of a chemical spillage at the London School of Economics, Pink Floyd has always been known as a highly experimental group...

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Dog Wigs

Anger has erupted at the news that a laboratory in Essex has been testing wigs on dogs.  The testing of clothing on animals was banned in Europe in 2004 following a number of high profile cases involving kittens in puffer jackets, hamsters wearing wellington boots and 'trout trousers'.  In this latest incident the laboratory, owned and operated by rug manufacturer Wriggley's Wigs, have got around the ban by claiming that the wigs are medical appliances rather than items of clothing. 

Campaigner Paddy Barker of the charity Pets Against Pullovers, wants this loophole closed.  "There's nothing more shameful than seeing a Basset Hound wearing a beehive or a Great Dane in dreadlocks,"  she said.  "It's a horrifying reminder of mankind's cruelty to his fellow creatures."

A spokesman for Wriggley's Wigs, however, remained unrepentant.  "The work we are doing here is vital to so many vain and insecure middle-aged men who are going prematurely bald.  No more will they have to suffer the horror of a strangely immobile, oddly-coloured toupee.   Or, heaven forbid, the shame of the comically windswept comb-over.  And if it means that an Alsatian has to spend an uncomfortable few minutes in an Afro, or a Doberman is spotted grinning stupidly whilst wearing pigtails or a blonde mullet, then I for one think it's worth the sacrifice."

Tracey's Mobile Hair Salon

Troubled by unruly flyaway hair?  Do you struggle with those difficult-to-tame locks?   If your wayward curls are a little more mobile than you'd like, then call Tracey Domestos of Tracey's Mobile Hair Salon.  Tracey has been hunting rogue hair ever since she shot her first mullet in Kenya at the tender age of 6. Here's what some of her recent clients had to say:

"Tracey is a real wonder.  She tracked my ponytail halfway across town before cornering it an alley and rendering it temporarily insensible with a brick."

-Marcus Plank, Salisbury-

"I thought my pixie crop was lost forever, until Tracey eventually discovered it living in a cave in the Peak District, where it had survived the winter on a diet of pickled onion Monster Munch and bits of old twig."

-Denise Von Sydow, also Salisbury-

"When my beard went missing I thought my life was over.  But then Tracey correctly deduced that it had fallen down the back of the sink during a DIY misadventure.  She coaxed it out with a piece of cheese, and now we're getting married in the spring."

-Clifton S Bridge,  Andover (nr Salisbury)-

-Tracey's Mobile Hair Salon-

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The History of Rock

Part 5: David Bowie

David Bowie fell to Earth in 1969 and promptly set about laying waste to human civilisation with his powerful heat ray. Oh, the humanity. However, when it was explained to him that this sort of thing was terribly bad form, he realised his faux pas and turned the whole thing in...

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