Click on the link here for Audio Player – Rory Gallagher, live at The Paris Theatre, London – BBC Radio 1 – February 1, 1973 The legendary Rory Gallagher tonight. One of the great, underrated and somewhat historically overlooked guitarists during the 70s and early 80s heyday of Hard Rock
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – December 9, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For those who hadn’t hear it, the news of the shooting death of John Lennon the night before reverberated all over the world, this December 9th in 1980. Stunned
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Cabaret Voltaire – In Session for John Peel – June 25, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 One of the more important, influential, yet largely overlooked groups of the early 1980s was Cabaret Voltaire. Taking a separate cue from Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave/New Romantic
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Gruppo Sportivo – Live at In The Great Wide Open Festival 2013 – VPRO/3FM The Dutch Alternative/Indie/Absurd band Gruppo Sportivo have been around the better part of 35 years. Having some worldwide hits in the 70s and 80s, they never quite
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Japan – Live in Amsterdam – 1982 – VPRO Archive/3FM A brief stop-off in the early 80s tonight for a concert by Synthpop/New Romantic pioneers Japan, live in Amsterdam just prior to their break-up in 1982. Initially beginning in 1974 as
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Cure in session for John Peel – Session #4 – January 7, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 In their 37 years of its existence, the only thing that has remained constant with The Cure is lead singer/writer/guitarist/founding member Robert Smith.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – October 17, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day of diplomatic wrangling, spin and damage control, this October 17th in 1986. Beginning with the White House sending former Attorney General Griffin Bell to Managua to
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC World News This Week – October 11, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this week, ending on October 11th in 1987 had much to do with the brouhaha on Capitol Hill over Pres. Reagan’s nomination of Judge Robert
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Call – live at The BBC – 1983 – BBC In Concert series – BBC Radio 1 Finishing up 80s week – for now. If you go to The Call’s website, you’ll be struck by an phrase – one you
Click on the link here for Audio Player – XTC In Concert At Hammersmith Palais – February 7, 1981 – BBC In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 You can’t have a week of 80s music without including a concert by XTC. They pretty much defined the decade (at least
