Page 3 Archives - Desperate Living

The brief but spectacular disco-rock career from two giants of the Page 3 era.

Exploring the very first edition of the long-running tabloid and the way it set out to feel as much like its rivals as possible.

Tabloid sensationalism, naked opportunism and the birth of the kiss ‘n’ tell boom of the Eighties and Nineties.

The fading cultural memory of Britain’s most famous heatwave.

Blinged-up cars and near-naked girls – what 1970s teenage boy could resist?

The good, the bad and the bizarre of VHS exercise tapes.

Lurid, lecherous and ludicrous – the game marketing pitched at teenage boys in the 1980s and 1990s.

1994 saw British television advertising step forward into the brave new world of European openness – and then quickly step back again.

How one of the biggest glamour models of the 1980s became an acclaimed author of ultra-violent crime fiction.

The unlikely collision of lager and glamour girls that became a national institution for decades.

The evolving history of the Bond Girl is a study in glamour, sexploitation and hypocrisy across six decades.

The rise and fall of British TV’s most notoriously raunchy dance troupe and brief pop music sensations.