Click on the link here for Audio Player – Deaf School – In Concert – October 4, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 Deaf School were an Art Rock band in the early-mid 1970s when Rock in general was in a period of transition. A competent and talented band, they didn’t
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – September 25, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Africa was a hotbed of change, this September 25th in 1979. With the overthrow of the Central African Emperor Bokassa, who likened himself to Napoleon and ordered massacres
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC In Concert with T. Rex – John Peel Presents – April 4, 1970 – BBC Radio 1 In case Rachmaninov just wasn’t up your alley tonight – a concert by Tyrannosaurus Rex, just before they morphed into T. Rex and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Roy Buchanan – in Concert At The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland – September 3, 1973 – WNCR-FM/Gordon Skene Sound Collection As a birthday tribute, to what would have been his 75th birthday on September 23rd (1939), Roy Buchanan – the man who
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC News: Issues & Answers – Hafez al-Assad Interview -June 9, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As part of my ongoing series of interviews with historic Middle East figures of the past and present, here is an interview from the
– Baxter Dury – In Concert At Route du Rock 2014 – August 17, 2014 – Radio France/Le Mouv – If the name Baxter Dury rings any bells with you, it’s probably because his dad was Ian Dury – as in Ian Dury and The Blockheads fame – of “Hit
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Crusaders – Live in Seattle – 1973 With the sad news this week of the passing of another Jazz giant, founding member of The Jazz Crusaders, and later just Crusaders, Joe Sample, the ranks of influential and pivotal figures in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Piano Jazz w/Marian McPartland – featuring Gerald Wilson – June 19, 2006 – NPR It was very sad news, earlier this week, hearing of the passing of one of the true giants of the Jazz World. Gerald Wilson was a
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS News – China After Mao – September 10, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For those of you who don’t know who Chairman Mao was (and for those of you who do, imagine my shock at how many actually don’t),
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – September 8, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Shades of October 1962, this day in September 35 years ago. A flurry of reports claiming the presence of Soviet troops on Cuban soil brought a wave of paranoia
