"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Cud – In session for John Peel – June 16, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – Cud to end the week. Formed in 1987 and getting their first recording session based on a demo tape sent to John Peel, who booked the band and got word-of-mouth started from the June...
September 1940 – MBS: John Steele Reports from London – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 7, 1940 – the beginning of the Blitz; what would be an 8-month nightmare of daily raids over England by German bombers in an attempt to alternately demoralize the country, but also prepare it...
September 8, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 8, 1998 – A busy news day. Beginning with a post-Labor Day Holiday feeding frenzy on Wall Street. Triggered by rumors of a reduction in interest rates, the dow rose an astonishing 289 points at...
The Jam – In Concert at Golders Green – December 19, 1981 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 – The Jam in concert tonight. One of the bands that epitomized Punk and Mod revival, The Jam were huge throughout the UK and the rest of Europe....
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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