– Burt Bacharach – BBC Interview – December 2, 1964 – BBC Archives – Seems almost every week the news of another passing of another icon, another indelible figure, another defining voice in so many of our lives fills the news. Although he was 94 at the time of his
– February 10, 1992 – Campaign ’92 – The World Tonight – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 10, 1992 – Today was the day of the much-anticipated Iowa Caucuses for this election year. Although it came as no surprise, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin was the big
Suicide tonight – a rare concert recorded at CBGB’s on April 7, 1979. Together with Martin Rev, Alan Vega established Suicide as one of the seminal projects of the Punk era. As a visual artist, Vega was well known in Art circles, but it was seeing The Stooges in 1969
CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 am news – February 9, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Cynthia Dwyer, the freelance American journalist being held in Iran on a purported Spying charge, was to leave Prison and head home after 281 days of captivity. But no. Seems
– February 9, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 9, 1979 – The ongoing situation in Love Canal, the Niagara Falls area of New York State was escalating on this particular day, 37 years ago. Now the area of evacuation was getting wider,
– Terry Reid – In Session for Beat Club – Dec. 31, 1969 – RBB Berlin – Terry Reid tonight. Probably more well known by fans as “the man who turned down Led Zeppelin” than for the actual artist himself, Terry Reid was a well respected and moderately successful artist
Marisol Montalvo, Soprano – Ensemble Intercontemporain Orchester du Conservatoire de Paris – In Concert – February 3, 2015 – Radio France – Marisol Montalvo with conductor Matthias Pintscher and Ensemble Intercontemporain Orchester du Conservatoire de Paris in a program of music by Pierre Boulez and Edgar Varese, It was all
February 8, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Raids over the French Coastal towns of Dunkerque, Boulogne and Calais started the news this day. Despite unfavorable weather over most all of Northwestern Europe, visibility was good over the channel and the Royal
Can were one of those bands no one thought would be as influential in 1974 as they became. They had taken the cause of Progressive Rock and ratcheted it up a few notches and introduced Electronic music in a way that hadn’t been full explored by Rock bands previously. They
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