Historic moments from 1967 – The first Human Heart transplant, which took place on December 3, 1967 at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Surgeons removed the heart of a young who died after an automobile crash and placed it woman in the chest of a 55-year-old man dying
Ride – In concert at Town & Country Club, London – October 28, 1990. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Perennial favorites Ride this afternoon. Recorded in concert at Town & Country in London on October 28, 1990. Despite their objections, Ride became synonymous with the Shoegaze
– ABC World News This Week – Week Ending March 26, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For the week ending, this March 26, 1989 – much of the “big ticket” news had to do with vague, unconfirmed Terrorist threats received by the State Department ahead of Easter Week,
March 25, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 25, 1998 – In the small Arkansas town of Jonesboro, gunfire erupted at Westside Middle School where four students and a teacher were killed the previous day by a jilted 13 year-old boy and his
NPR – National Security Hearings – Military Power – June 4, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the early 1970s, with our military strength drained through a protracted Vietnam war, our Foreign Policy was brought into question and the whole issue of breakdowns in negotiations between nations, eventually
Siouxsie Sioux. – And where would the 80s be without her? Siouxsie And The Banshees this afternoon – recorded at Sartory Säle in Cologne on July 19, 1981 by West German Radio. Finding good sounding (i.e. soundboard) recordings of almost any period of Siouxsie and The Banshees concerts is difficult
March 24, 1995 -CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 24, 1995 – A busy day on Capitol Hill, with passage of the Line-Item Veto 69-29, President Clinton got what President Reagan had been asking for. It enabled the President the remove “pork barrel” spending so
PJ Harvey – live at Peel Acres – May 20, 2004 – John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Become a Patron! PJ Harvey to start the week. A session she recorded at the fabled Peel Acres on May 20, 2004 and broadcast over BBC Radio 1. Without question, one
China and Formosa – a situation not destined to change anytime soon. News and Commentary – Fulton Lewis Jr. – Mutual – May 3, 1955 Contrary to the widely repeated belief that News was the exclusive property of the political Left – one example that belief was simply not true
Starting the week with a concert from Blood Orange – recorded live in Toronto by the CBC on March 17th of this year. Very much appreciated – coming like a warm blanket on a cold night, Blood Orange (Devonté Hynes) did the first of two nights in Toronto, ahead of
