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Owen Monk Rita Monk Leicester City Football Club Marcel Duchamp Kevin Keegan Bruce Nauman Gary Lineker New York Martin Scorceces The Nationl Gallery London Laurel & Hardy James Bond The Wizard of Oz Christmas Robert de Niro Charlie Chaplin Harold Lloyd San Francisco My driving instructor LA James Dean Joy Division family photographs Oscar Wilde Match of the Day A Question of Sport Dr Who The Smiths telephones Eastenders Louis Armstrong Jeff Koons Melody Maker The Face ID Not The Nine O'clock News The Two Ronnies Morcombe & Wise The Young Ones Flash Art Gregory Peck England v Scotland Scotland v England Frieze NME Tom & Jerry The Simpsons The Clash Monty Python Glasgow Andy Warhol Morrissey 12" singles second hand shops Hollywood Blvd Mods Skin Heads friends planes trains taxis hitch hiking boats bikes The Midlands The Cross Chanel Ferry fax machines Miles Davis James Brown Lawrence Weiner Robert Barry Isabell Heimerdinger Marilyn Monroe Boy George Blondie the sun The Guardian The Beatles Elvis The Rolling Stones one hit wonders MOCA LA Albert Camus Francis Ford Coppola Marlon Brando War Films warmth Michael Caine Dirk Bogarde Humfrey Bogart ltalia 90 Fawlty Towers Chanel 4 The Tate Gallery Vincent Van Gogh Jesus Madonna Bill Metcalf Nicolai Wallner David Shrigley Five a side football London Colin Bygraves The Generation Game Lassie Come Home Rosie Sally Lizzie top of the pops Glasgow School of Art The Queen chocolate video cameras Martin Kippenberger The Hollywood Hills Beer Ed Ruscha John Baldessari Robert Jackson Mark Wheatley Rob Osborne Mike Cooper Sydney Shingler Alfred Shingler Charlie Monk Seth Siegelaub John Cassavetes Douglas Huebler Jackson Pollock Mike Kelley Tommy Cooper Howard Rainbow The Beach Boys Joseph Beuys new balance adidas nike wembley trophy five Monet Manet Willem de Kooning The Archers Cross Roads Brenda & Stan & Monty Lisson Gallery Dusty Hare Wham Madness The Helsinki Bar Simon Fearn Robert Werner Jeremy Blanchard The Variety Bar Toby Webster Richard Wright Jasper Johns Ben Nicholson Henry Moore rugby football Renault 5 Morris Marina Cross Country Running The Olympics Four Four Two cricket MTV Lady Diana Philip Kerr Star Trek Super Stars The Star Wars Trilogy Withnail & 1 Joe Orton Richard & David Attenborough Frank Sinatra Nat King Cole Vanessa Fanton Miles Davies The Doors Kiss Alan Jones Allen Ruppersberg Bas Jan Ader Liam Gillick Pierre Bismuth Douglas Gordon Lucy Lippard Jack Pearson Gabriel Orozco The Beastie Boys The Jerky Boys Robert Smithson 1966 1969 1976 1980 1986 1988 1990 1997 1999 2000 Saturday afternoons BBC 2 Blue Peter Rumble Fish Taxi Driver David Perreau Marc-Olivier Wahler Lisa Rosendahl Casey Kaplan Jack Hanley Barry Barker Nicholas Logsdale Yvon Lambert Olivier Belot Kirby Muxloe Martin O'Neill David Harding coffee tea sugar Ail Creatures Great and Small The Post Office The Dole Office Christoph Keller Raimar Stange Dave Aile Ross Sinclair Jean-Francois Taddei Ami Barak Kenneth Williams Tony Hancock Sid James Vic Reeves Bob Mortimer Margaret Thatcher The Labour Party Iggy Pop The Sound of Music the piano David Bowie The Outsiders Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Swap Shop Tiswas The Tube Fun Boy Three Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers James Cagney Charlie Chaplin Clint Eastwood Blinky Palermo Sonny Monk Caroline Van Dijk Jay Van Dijk Richard Long Joseph Kosuth Gilbert & George Belize Robert Barry Christmas Patrick Thistle Terry Venables Pot Black pot Radio 4 Radio 1 The World Service Stephan Pascher Dick Hebdige post cards bookshops TV swimming pools water Elle Vogue Wallpaper wallpaper golf courses railway tracks trees rivers cigars cigarettes matches lighters Berlin condoms ideas echo & the bunnymen Oasis speed LSD magic mushrooms sunday school sunday league football sunday lunch mastercard Visa The Empire State Building The Eiffel Tower The Golden Gate Bridge tits & arse Adam Court Jonnie Fort Copenhagen skiing jam Santa Monica Venice Venice Beach the Moon the Who Keith Moon The Monkies sushi Power 106FM Hip Hop Sunset BIA Meyer Riegger. and many many more.

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