You’d think after all the loss we’ve been experiencing this year (which is only half-way over), we would be used to all this by now. No – you don’t. They are all different and they hit you in all different ways. The end result is the same; loss – feeling
After the war, the BBC World Service increased it’s programming to America, partly because the number of American troops stationed in Britain during the war did feel a pang of nostalgia but also letting the English-speaking world know that Britain was doing okay with recovery and rapidly getting back
– CBS World News Roundup – July 22, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this July 22nd in 1965, news was about the escalating War in Vietnam and the escalating violence in Alabama. In Washington, talks were entering their third day over the future of the Vietnam War.
Getting Tuesday up and rolling in a calm direction with a set from Sparklehorse, recorded on November 6, 1996 at Bullet Sound Studios in the Netherlands for VPRO, Hilversum. There’s always a sense of poignancy, listening to one of these Sparklehorse concerts. Not knowing then, but knowing now the tragedy
