"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Simple Minds – In session for David Jensen – BBC Radio 1 – 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Simple Minds in session for the BBC in 1982. Probably one of the bands who most epitomized the 80s, got their start in 1977 and scored a number of hits prior...
Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) – Communiqué of June 6, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the big news events of 1974, aside from the daily revelations of Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, was the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by a group calling themselves the...
The Rolling Stones – in concert at International Center, Honolulu Hawaii – July 28, 1966 – KPOI Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Not to be the dispenser of Reality checks, but this concert from the Rolling Stones 1966 tour took place 52 years ago. And no doubt, the...
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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