The Antenna Diaries: Sir Michael Parkinson

An Antenna London tale: Sir Michael Parkinson, Boy George & CherSir Michael Parkinson is very much in the news at the moment and it brings back some amusing memories when he was involved with Antenna London and Simon Forbes. Boy George & CherThe first anecdote took place one Saturday afternoon before his coveted Saturday evening show which was shot live. It happened that his two major guests that night were Boy George and Cher.George had booked into Antenna for a mid-afternoon appointment to have a tidy up on his extensions for the filming. However, there was also a walk-in that day, being Cher.Simon quickly ushered Cher upstairs hoping that...

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Where It All Began

How Dome's Antenna London Salon was the heart of the hair industry.Simon Forbes opened Dome's Antenna London salon 40 years ago from today.Now hailed as a creative genius, he managed to change the world of hairdressing and introduced a brand new service, commonly accepted nowadays. Hair ExtensionsInitially, hair extensions were hailed as radical and only for the youth market and very much thought of as a passing fad. How wrong his critics have been proven.After researching the market he dismissed human hair which needed to be glued into the natural hair, due to the damage it causes to the natural hair and the medium of already chemically processed hair...

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