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Flesh For Lulu – In Session for John Peel – recorded August 21,1982 – Broadcast September 6 -BBC Radio – Flesh For Lulu, in their only session for John Peel, recorded on August 21, 1982 and broadcast on September 6th. Flesh for Lulu formed in Brixton, London and were active...
Sir Michael Tippett conducts The Boston Symphony – August 5, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A historic concert this week. Sir Michael Tippett, considered one of the leading British Composers of the 20th century, leading the Boston Symphony in a performance of his A Child In Our Time....
April 10, 1994 – ABC World News This Week – ABC Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 10, 1994 – A week of sharp contrasts. In Rwanda, news reports of mass killings between ethnic groups; the Hutus and Tutsis – and the scenes of unconscionable atrocities raging...
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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