"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. – CBS Radio: Newsbreak + CBS Radio Hourly News – November 6, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When Iran underwent sweeping changes, starting in late 1978 and culminating in the exile (under the pretense of tests for Cancer)…
– CBS World News Roundup – November 3, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berlin and Capitol Hill: For all intents and purposes, the start of a historic week, this November 3rd in 1989. Starting with the showdown on…
– CBS World News Roundup – October 23, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 23rd in 1979 was a harbinger of things to come. On this day, The Shah of Iran arrived in New York…
Capitol Hill: In a move that took everyone by surprise, a suddenly rebellious House forced Democratic leaders to take a second look at a $486 billion 1980 budget that went down to stunning defeat The House rejected the spending package…
Gang Of Four – Live At California Hall – Nov. 8, 1980 – KALX-FM, Berkeley – Gang of Four tonight – A band that represented a revolution in music -they were recognized as one of the leading lights of the…
Squeeze this weekend – one of those bands which helped define the 80s and the transition from Punk to Post-Punk to New Wave. With the writing talents of Chris Difford an Glenn Tillbrook, Squeeze had a string of hits on…
– Ultravox – Live At The Old Waldorf – March 13, 1979 – ©Terry Hammer Archives – Most people think of Ultravox from the large-scale/new-romantic/sonically epic songs and the first of a string high-budget/high-concept videos to appear on that newly…
– Clifford Curzon, Piano – Bavarian Radio Symphony – Leopold Hager, cond. 1979 Mozart Festival – DW – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to historic concerts this week. Tonight it’s a performance from the 1979 Wurzburg Mozart Festival in…
– The Cure – in session for John Peel – May 9, 1979 – broadcast May 16, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – The Cure for our Sunday Night excursion. Their second session for John Peel – recorded on May…
If you owned a car this May 9th in 1979, you were no doubt preoccupied with what number your license plate ended in. Because gas rationing was being enforced and was strictly limited to odd numbered or Personalized license plates…