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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Become a Patron! Election ’88 was going full swing, this March 13th. Vice-President George Bush crushed his Republican opponents in the South Carolina GOP Primary the day before. As of this day, Bush has 705 delegates, while Dole was a…
We exist because of subscribers like you: Become a Patron! Amy Winhouse in concert this morning. Recorded live at The Hove Festival in Norway from 2007. Amy Winehouse had an astonishingly short career, having arrived and peaked within a period…
February of 1956 saw one of the most unusual periods of Solar Flare activity in history. The solar flare of 23 February 1956 and the resulting geophysical disturbance ranks as one of the most remarkable solar-terrestrial events of the twentieth…
Become a Patron! A week full of intrigues and showdowns, this one ending on March 12th. On Capitol Hill, John Tower fought a hard fight but lost when the Senate voted Thursday, 53-47, against confirming his nomination as Secretary of…
Tributes this morning – the news that Eric Carmen past away yesterday seems another in a long line of passings – one seemingly having no ending – but still . . . In case you forgot, or didn’t know in…
Even though the majority of the world was on the cusp of creating breakthroughs in Science in 1936, we were a long way from perfecting those things we take for granted today. Television was in the experimental stage – records…
The Smile, recorded last week during the 6 Music Festival on March 8th and broadcast live (naturally) by BBC 6 Music. When COVID came along and turned, not only the world but live music upside down, a good chunk of…
Become a Patron! Busy day in the world for the week ending this March 11, 1979. In an effort to kickstart the stalled Egyptian/Israeli peace talks, President Jimmy Carter disclosed he was flying to Israel to meet with Menachem Begin…
Become a Patron! – Elvis Costello – Live In St. Louis, Missouri – River Daze – KADI-FM – January 31, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I remember the first time I heard an Elvis Costello single. I was…
Become a Patron! Music of Beethoven this weekend – his piano concerto Number 4 – in a historic performance by Friedrich Gulda, piano and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony conducted by Hans Mueller-Kray from a concert recorded on February 18, 1960.…