Tag Archives: David Sullivan
The Sex O’clock News
Contrary to what many might think, David Sullivan’s first foray into the world of British newspapers wasn’t the launch of his infamous Sunday Sport in September 1986. 10 years earlier Sullivan published a precursor to his tabloid adventures, namely National … Continue reading
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Tagged Ava Cadell, Charlie Brown, Come Play with Me, Daily Sport, David Sullivan, Mary Millington's World Striptease Extravaganza, Miss Bohrloch, National News, Sunday Sport, Whitehouse Adult News, Whitehouse magazine
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Set Camera to… Vibrate!
During the 1970s publisher David Sullivan was audacious in his approach to business; he certainly had few qualms about upsetting any of his porn competitors. Sullivan ‘borrowed’ the titles of a couple of well-known hardcore continental magazines – Private, Climax and … Continue reading
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Tagged AKA Sally Stevens, Camera Clubs, David Sullivan, Experience magazine, Intrepid Fox pub, Private magazine, Tabor publications, Vibrations magazine
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Are You Experienced?
Prior to her life-changing meeting with publisher David Sullivan in February 1974, one of Mary’s main softcore employers was Tabor Publications, originally based at Valentine Place on the Blackfriars Road in Southwark, SE1. The publisher’s flagship title was Experience, a … Continue reading
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Tagged AKA Sally Stevens, David Sullivan, Experience magazine, Exposure magazine, Roger Carr, Tabor publications, Vibrations magazine, Vicki Scott
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The Cover Girls of ‘Come Play with Me’
I thought it might just be interesting to see a selection of ‘top shelf’ magazine covers – all featuring photographs of the principal female cast of 1977’s Come Play with Me. So here we have Mary Millington gracing the cover of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bergman, David Sullivan, Lisa Taylor, Nicola Austine, Pat Astley, Penny Chisholm, Playbirds magazine, Private magazine, Sonia Svenberger, Suzette Sangalo Bond, Suzette St Clair, Suzy Mandel, The Playbirds, Whitehouse magazine
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The Return of ‘Nicola Austine’
In the 1970s, the classic era of British ‘sex comedies’ gave rise to a new breed of cinematic icon. From the worlds of The Sun’s Page 3, Mayfair magazine, 8mm porn and TV’s Benny Hill Show came forth a unique … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Bergman, Come Play with Me, David Sullivan, Nicola Austine, School for Sex
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News of the Screws
A very long time ago, four decades before the phone-hacking scandal, the News of the World was Britain’s best-loved Sunday newspaper. Launched in 1843, the paper steadily expanded its circulation and within a century it had become the world’s most-read … Continue reading
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Tagged Come Play with Me, David Sullivan, Irene Handl, News of the World, Tommy Godfrey
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“A Pocket Beauty”
David Sullivan has often described Mary to me as “a pocket beauty”. At just 4’11” tall Mary was indeed tiny, although this was never really apparent in her photographs. But perhaps, rather fittingly, Mary was one of the early stars … Continue reading
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Tagged David Sullivan, George Harrison Marks, Magazine rarities, Playbirds magazine, Pocket Playbirds magazine, Rosemary England
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I, Maximus
George Harrison Marks began shooting his now-legendary series of 8mm ‘glamour’ films in Britain in the late-1950s. During the post-war years the ‘Harrison Marks’ brand became a byword for quality among nudie film connoisseurs and since his death, in 1997, his films have … Continue reading
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Tagged 8mm films, Arabian Knights, Clyda Rosen, David Sullivan, George Harrison Marks, Lucienne Camille, Pamela Green, Stanley Long, Take an Easy Ride
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Come Play Your Cards Right!
David Sullivan made no excuses for wanting to make as much money out of his willing customers as possible during the 1970s. Alongside his incredible stable of girlie magazines he sold a multitude of sex toys, calendars, London sex guides, 8mm films, … Continue reading
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Mary’s Aural Sex
Between 1977 and 1978 Mary recorded a series of erotic audio tapes in a small studio above a flower shop on Barnes Common in leafy South London. With her engineer Nigel encouraging her, Mary improvised over a dozen sexy stories, … Continue reading
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Tagged David Sullivan, Playbirds magazine, vinyl record
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