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Rome – In session for John Peel – February 23, 1997 – BBC Radio 1 – A dose of Experimental/Industrial for a Thursday night by way of Chicago duo Rome, recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on February 23, 1997. Quoting their AllMusic bio: Thrill Jockey instrumental duo...
November 1, 1956 – UN General Assembly Meeting re: Suez Crisis -1st half hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- November 1, 1956. November would be a month of turmoil in 1956. Two major crises were developing, either of which would have tested the limits of the United Nations as a...
Method Actors – in session for John Peel – July 18, 1981 -BBC Radio 1 – Method Actors, in session for John Peel in 1981 tonight. Further evidence there must’ve been something in the water in Athens Georgia in the late 70s, because there was no doubt that this little...
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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