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Scotsman
15 hours ago
- Scotsman
Scotland retro: 39 atmospheric photos bring the 70s back to life
The 70s were a period of great change across Scotland. It was a tough decade for many, with the decline of the coal mining and shipbuilding industries leading to high unemployment. But there were good times too, as these photos chronicling life across Scotland throughout the decade show. They capture lost shops, vanished landmarks, school life, festival fun, and much more. In one memorable image, a boy is pictured living out his Wild West fantasy in the toy section of the much-missed Jenners department store in Edinburgh. Another shows the old Bluevale tower blocks looming over Glasgow, and a third features youngsters munching candyfloss at a popular funfair in Fife. Stars of the day, including Morecambe and Wise, the Bay City Rollers, and Paul McCartney cradling a baby Stella McCartney, during his Wings era, are pictured in this retro photo gallery. The buzz surrounding the Eurovision Song Contest, life on the factory floor, 70s fashions, and filming for a new TV show also feature in this nostalgic look back at how we lived half a century ago. Do these photos bring back any memories for you? If you enjoyed these pictures, you may enjoy this round-up of the best images from the 70s across the UK. 1 . The Big Yin Comedian Billy Connolly pictured with the Scottish Coal Queen Miss Sandra Carruthers, of Cumnock, during the heyday of the Scottish Miners' Gala in Edinburgh, on June 12, 1976 | TSPL Photo Sales 2 . High-rise living The Bluevale tower blocks seen from the Necropolis cemetery in Glasgow in May 1979 | TSPL Photo: TSPL Photo Sales 3 . Funfair Youngsters enjoy the Easter sunshine and candy floss at the Links Market funfair in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in April 1976 | TSPL Photo: TSPL Photo Sales 4 . New shopping centre Mrs Wharton and Mrs Campbell with prams at the escalator of the Wester Hailes shopping centre, newly opened in June 1974 | TSPL Photo: TSPL Photo Sales
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Daily Mail
Emma Stone reveals heart-wrenching reason she cried before shaving her head for new role
Emma Stone followed in the footsteps of Sigourney Weaver, Demi Moore, and Natalie Portman by having her head shaved on camera with a 1.5-millimeter blade for her new movie, Bugonia. Moments before, the 36-year-old movie star burst into tears in her trailer while remembering how her mother Krista Stone lost all of her hair during her triple-negative breast cancer battle. 'She actually did something brave. I'm just shaving my head,' Emma recalled thinking in her Vogue cover story Monday. 'My mom was like, "I'm so jealous. I want to shave my head again!"' Stone and her mother celebrated her cancer-free status in 2008 by enlisting Paul McCartney to design a tattoo of birds feet for them because of their shared love for the Beatles ' 1968 song Blackbird. In the sci-fi black comedy, two conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) remove the long locks off the two-time Oscar winner's character Michelle, the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, to prove she's an alien. Emma (born Emily) recalled the first shower she took after her dramatic makeover was 'amazing,' but she concealed her bald head beneath a wig while attending the New York Film Festival on October 5. 'I was bummed I wasn't going out with it,' Stone lamented. 'Just straight-up bald. I think that would have been fun.' The Arizona-born beauty scoffed that her hair has been growing back 'pretty slowly for how long it's been' but her best friend Jennifer Lawrence loved the shaved look. 'I really didn't want her to shave her head. I had already lived through the Billie Jean King haircut,' the Oscar winner wisecracked via e-mail. 'Honestly, she looked beautiful. She pulled it off.' Bugonia marked Emma's sixth collaboration with director Yorgos Lanthimos after The Favourite (2018), Bleat (2022), Poor Things (2023), Kinds of Kindness (2024), and the music video for Jerskin Fendrix's song Beth's Farm (2025). Emma will likely glam up to attend the world premiere of the Focus Features flick on August 28 held at Italy's Sala Grande during the 82nd Venice Film Festival. The 51-year-old Greek filmmaker's remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! will eventually hit US theaters October 31 and UK theaters November 7. Becoming mother to four-year-old daughter Louise Jean 'streamlined everything' for Stone, who's been married to Saturday Night Live writer Dave McCary since 2020. 'It's a clichéd thing to say, but it changes everything. And simplifies everything,' the Eddington actress gushed. 'There's nothing I feel luckier about. She's the greatest gift of my life, for sure.' Emma and Dave - who co-founded their production company Fruit Tree in 2020 - just sold their newly renovated Austin, TX mansion which was on the market for $23.5M, according to
The Guardian
6 days ago
- The Guardian
Early Beatles photos by Paul McCartney to go on show in London
A collection of photographs taken by Paul McCartney when the Beatles were on the brink of global stardom are to be shown in an exhibition that sheds light on intimate moments as the group first experienced fame. Rearview Mirror: Liverpool-London-Paris, which opens at Gagosian in London on 28 August, features 18 shots taken by the singer-songwriter during late 1963 after the release of the Beatles' first album, and early 1964 as they travelled to the US. Joshua Chuang, the director of photography at Gagosian, said the images captured the Beatles before the all-consuming fame of a few months later. 'When Paul is most prolific when using his camera parallels the time in which they actually had time. When they weren't so overwhelmed by being so overexposed and in demand,' Chuang said. 'It was a really precious few months in which they're realising who they are, who they are to other people, and want to participate in that image formation.' The Beatles released their first two albums in 1963: Please Please Me and With the Beatles, which catapulted them into the limelight, powered by what the Guardian called 'a different and heavily northern-flavoured sound of their own'. The band followed that up in 1964 with singles including A Hard Day's Night and two more albums that helped them break America and become a global phenomenon. In autumn 1963, McCartney decided to pick up a camera, long before he and the group became some of the most photographed people on the planet. He bought a simple Pentax and used mostly black and white Kodak and Ilford film, and took a small selection of colour images in early 1964. 'I think they knew that history was happening,' said Chuang. 'They wanted to capture it, and do it themselves. They picked a camera for the same reason anyone does, to have your own view.' There are also more reflective self-portraits taken before live shows and interviews. One of the self-portraits is taken in the attic of McCartney's then girlfriend, the actor Jane Asher, which is where he wrote the melody for Yesterday. Sign up to The Guide Get our weekly pop culture email, free in your inbox every Friday after newsletter promotion Chuang said: 'When life is happening so quickly and changing so quickly, you don't often have a chance to stop and look at yourself in the mirror. And I really think that's exactly what he's doing: looking at himself in the near and wanting to crystallise that moment, not knowing what was going to happen next.' The images cover the era when the band were well known in the UK but could still get the cold shoulder when they ventured abroad. McCartney's photos from Paris hint at a less-than-rapturous response in the French capital. He captures the modest crowds outside the Olympia – where they had a three-week run – and a stroll down the Champs-Élysées where John Lennon could still walk freely. Some of the images were shown in 2023 at Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm, an exhibition of the photos he rediscovered during the pandemic.
