October 28, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 28, 1987 – A stock market crash, a murmur of a Superpower summit around Thanksgiving and a series of terror attacks on personnel at Clark Air Force Base in Manila – all in one day.
– October 28, 1978 – Sadat-Begin Peace Prize + other news – CBS/NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 28, 1978 began on a hopeful note – announced the previous evening, the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to Egypt‘s Anwar Sadat and Israel‘s Menachem Begin. The
– The Moody Blues – In Session – April-November 1967 Top Of The Pops – BBC Radio 1 – Certainly not the first band to make use of the Mellotron, they were one of the first to take it with them on the road which, as anyone who has worked
– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group or another. In the days at the end of World
– Split Enz – Live At Pinkpop 1980 – VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – By the time 1980 rolled around, Split Enz, who had pioneered the art of wonderful music mixed with a bizarre stage presence, were letting the music speak for itself on stage. And
Nelson Freire, piano – Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Charles Dutoit, cond. February 5, 2015 – RSR-Geneva Over to Geneva this week for a historic concert by the brilliant and much lamented Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire, accompanied by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande led by Charles Dutoit. The concert was
October 26, 1981 – First Line Report – CBS World News Roundup – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 26, 1981 – Turmoil and protest this day. Poland was experiencing the latest crackdown and attempt at silencing/banishing Solidarity, with troops and police fanning out over urban and
October 26, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow and The News – Gordon Skene Sound collection – October 26, 1951 – for the first time since suffering defeat in July of 1945, Winston Churchill succeeded in taking back his role as Prime Minister in an election which saw a dramatic turn
Phish – In concert – Zeleste, Barcelona, Spain – July 8, 1998 – band soundboard – I haven’t posted a Phish concert for a very long time. No reason, other than Phish fans are legion, they are a tight-knit group – they know every note and every word to every
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