– NBC Radio – This Is Nora Drake – October 28, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – They always say there’s nothing like feeling better after hearing a story about someone’s life that’s worse than your own. During those dim-distant days of life before Internet – cell phones –
You admit; you’re the obsessive type – born that way – every birthday your mom tells people you came out looking for work. You got it in your head you were going to skip grades and head straight to UCLA Summer school was the place. But you also got it
Although I am sure more tribute concerts are planned for the coming weeks, this one is actually from January this year – as a tribute to the living Francoise Hardy not a memorial. Probably the best kind – celebrate people you love who have been an inspiration while they’re alive
A day where much news was coming from Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia. NATO peacekeepers yesterday cordoned off three mass grave sites around this village in southern Kosovo that local residents said contained the bodies of 91 villagers killed in a two-day rampage by Serb paramilitary forces. Residents said the
– Disclosure – Live at Alexandria Palace, London – March 8, 2014 – Disclose this morning to end of the week – time to dance and forget about it, and Disclosure are just the ones to do it. As a colleague pointed out to me – I don’t usually run
Busy week in the world of June 13, 1993 starting in Washington and President Clinton’s nomination of Stephen Breyer. Summoned from his hospital bed, federal Judge Stephen Breyer met with President Clinton, hoping to become the first justice in a generation named to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president.
By all accounts, it was inches before America would be 100% involved in the War in Europe – Germany warned the U.S. that every ship carrying contraband for Britain will be sunk and charged that the United States is employing the Robin Moor sinking to build up war psychosis propaganda.
– Blossoms – live at Eurosonic 2016 – January 15, 2016 – VPRO/3VOOR12 The Netherlands – Blossoms at Eurosonic 2016. Voted 4th on BBC 6 Music’s Sound Of New Music for 2016 list, Blossoms from Manchester were getting around and getting noticed. Together since 2013, they have a string of
Over to Madrid this week for a concert by La Real Cámara with guitarist Jose-Miguel Moreno in a program of music of Haydn, Boccherini, Sor and Reicha – it was recorded at el Real Monasterio de Santa Isabel de Madrid on December 18, 2008 by Radio Nacional de España. Starting
News for this day in 1941 – a view of the South Pacific as seen by American reporter Burt Silen in Manila. From his point of view there was no immediate danger of war coming from Japan, but Manila, as well as the rest of the Philippines and surrounding islands
