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The Auteurs – Paris – 1996 – Past Daily Weekend Session

The Auteurs – Associated with Early Brit-pop, but . . . The Auteurs this weekend – recorded for The Black Sessions at RFI International on May 3, 1996 Luke Haines, guitar, Piano and vocals created the Auteurs with his then-girlfriend Alice Readman on bass guitar former classmate Glenn Collins on drums, and

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December 26, 2004 – World Turned Upside Down

– BBC World Service News – December 26, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-one years ago on December 26, 2004, we were jolted from our Christmas mornings-after to learn an earthquake on the floor of the Indian Ocean measuring 8.9 struck off the island of Sumatra, triggering a Tsunami

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December 25, 1944 – Christmas In Wartime

Somewhere in Belgium – Many miles to go. December 25, 1944 – Christmas day – celebrating at home – fighting on the fronts. No holidays where war concerned. Armored and infantry divisions of Lt. Gen. Patton’s Third Army were reported crashing into the southern flank of the German salient in

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