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This site began at nylon.net as a tongue-in-cheek single page to complement the Goon Show pages. It was never meant to get this big, but its size, I guess, is proportional to the assets of its subject. Even if she was not a great artiste, she was certainly a great pioneer and phenomenon of modern celebrity. This is what this site celebrates.

I have made it a personal quest to discover everything about Sabrina. I call it a research project into the role of the internet in archiving memes and preserving our shared social history. Other people call it pathetic and sad... anyway! If you've read this far, you obviously agree with me, so to hell with the others.

She was a model, TV hostess, actor, singer, stage performer - and had no talent. Even she admitted that. Why then, was the Western world and the bearded president of Cuba so keen to see her that - at one time -10,000 people in Perth caused an airport terminal to collapse? Why did The Goon Show audience wet themselves whenever Spike Milligan slipped another reference to Sabrina past the BBC censors?

Like most of the male world (albeit 40 years after the event) I was intrigued by the lass. Were they real? (Yes, and they were insured). Who was she? (Norma Ann Sykes.) How did a bed-ridden teenage Cheshire girl end up as an international icon of femininity who rivalled Jayne Mansfield, Diana Dors and Marilyn herself? Why did she cause hysteria that made young people of all sexes literally push Frank Sinatra out of the way to get her autograph?

Those questions, and more, are the subject of the SabrinaStuff Site... Continued... for those who are interested

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Sabrina

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Sabrina - Norma Ann Sykes - was the impossibly-proportioned darling of Britain, the cast of the Goon Show, and most discerning testosterone-enabled beings during the 1950s and 1960s.

Falling more or less accidentally into an industry for which she was - at first - unqualified, she endured, trained, paid her dues, and thrived to become the biggest, least talented, most photographed celebrity of her day.

Was she, as she herself once said, just a dumb blonde with a 42½ inch bust and a 17 inch waist? Or was she an unacknowledged promotional genius with a native sense of publicity that would make most agents weep with envy?

Please enjoy the phenomenon that was our Sabrina who - contrary to rumour - is alive, gorgeous, and fairly well in Hollywood, and in contact with the Sabrina Site!

You're new here? You're frightened, confused, overwhelmed by the sheer hugeness of Sabrinastuff. Here's a good place to start your Sabrina experience.

Sabrina's Live Shows Photos Oooh - over 1,200 and counting... The Life Story of Sabrina Could there be a miniseries in this? Magazines - over 100 to enjoy. A fascinating farrago of Fleet Street facts and fantasy.  Read all of it; believe half of it. Sabrina's songs. Not a large discography, but a memorable one. Sabrina sings the sexy blues on vinyl. Sabrina's plays on stage. Legitimate theatre, darrrrrrling! Sabrina's movies. All ten of them. She was always perfectly cast. The Sabrina interview - by phone, by me. Also see In Touch with Sabrina - my contacts with Sabrina. Need business cards with Sabrina's name on it? Sabrina references on radio (featuring steam-powered Goon Show references to Sabrina - where this site began!) Sabrina was an object of fascination and unbridled lust to the Goons - especially author Spike Milligan. Uncover the cryptic references to Sabrina that have puzzled some younger listeners, and forced older listeners to call the nurse and draw the screens. Sabrina in the Newsreels - from the days before TV news, the stars appeared before the feature film in the cinema. And Sabrina was often there. Sabrina's Short Films. When gentlemen's clubs needed to see Sabrina washing her hair! Sabrina's advertising was a powerful attractant to men with their trousers bulging... with fat wallets. Of particular importance is Sabrina's infamous Caltex ad - still popping fly buttons 50 years later. Readers' Memories of Sabrina. The knees may be older, and arthritic, but many still tremble with memories of Sabrina. Some of these memories are publishable. Sabrina in Books & Newspapers London, Melbourne, Stockport! Odd things about Sabina: some are very odd indeed Did you date Sabrina? (Yeah, yeah. Sure you did.). Anyway, these big names really dated Sabrina. The Elite BOOBS Society - Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina - for discerning gentlefolk only The Sabrina Hall of Fame Join this pantheon of honoured contributors - earn a prestigious Sabrina Honour. How to spot the real Sabrina - search tips Sabrina Collectibles Genuine? Maybe, maybe not...   Site History - everything that has been done to this site, since like forever.

Can YOU support the Sabrina Site?
For example, do you possess any of this elusive Sabrinastuff?

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Join the Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina (BOOBS) program to support the site. You get access to high-resolution, unwatermarked scans of unique Sabrinastuff for contributing a little money to help the Sabrina Fighting Fund.

I will continue to offer normal sized, screen-resolution (72 dpi) watermarked scans on this site in keeping with the Sabrinasite policy of always remaining free to Sabrina Lovers. Donate a little, and get the Best Of Our Beautiful Sabrina.

If you help Support Sabrina, I guess you'd be a BRA - Brave Reliable Assistant. Am I taking this acronym thing a bit too far?

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If you have, or can help locate Sabrina stuff, I would be delighted if you contacted me. There are precious few undiscovered pictures still to be on the internet but I'm sure there are still a few knees trembling out there, especially in the UK, and those knee-owners may have a buried Sabrina treasure or two in the sideboard. This is an international philanthropic enterprise, for the benefit of red-blooded males everywhere!

Young men: go to your aged fathers and grandfathers and say, "Do you remember Sabrina?" If their eyes glaze over and they start drooling, let me know. Personal recollections of Sabrina are valuable.

You knee-tremblers of the Sabrina generation: wait 'til the missus is out and rummage through your secret stash of goodies you don't think she knows about. There may just be a magazine, photo or love letter related to Sabrina. Perhaps you have one of these elusive goodies stashed away in your pyjama drawer?  If you find something, steady your trembling fingers and let me know.

(Puts "Land of Hope and Glory" on gramophone)

Go to it, lads! We cannot let the memory of Sabrina sink into the abyss of forgotten legends. We owe it to our sons and grandsons!

(Wipes tear from eye.)

And the final appeal is from Sabrina herself (in Mountains of the Moon)

Thank you - thank you all!

Can you support the Sabrina Stuff Site?

Sabrina
Links

• Sabrina joins the Goon Show Liberation Army
• http://www.goon.org/usgoons
• Java's Bachelor Pad
• World Clock - what time is it in Hollywood, Melbourne and London?

Do you have a site related to the Sabrina era? Email me to get a link here

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All hail Queen Sabrina!
(Click her to see her full size)

An odd (and long) question, but the odder answer is YES! Visit Retroraunch and enjoy 100 years of naughty naked nymphs! If you subscribe a bit, a tiny slice goes towards elevating Sabrina's assets!

RetroRaunch  - Go on, you know you're interested!

Where do Sabrina Fans come from?

No Greenland visitors yet - dammit! Come on Greenland. You're letting everyone down.

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Thank you for visiting, and I hope some happy memories and loins have been stirred.

Many people have gone "Corrrr - blimey - I remember those!"
since the first Sabrina page was created at nylon.net on 16 June 2000.
It moved to sabrinastuff.com on 1 Sept 2003.
Moved back to semi-retire at nylon.net/sabrina on 12 April 2005
Back to full steam in 2008. It's strange how things go.

Visit the original site from way back when.

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