Category: 1980’s
July 5, 1983 – Cold War Haggling And A Kerfuffle Named Watt
July 5, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 am news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 5, 1983 – the morning after fireworks and barbecues, the world continued to spin. Starting with news from Moscow that a meeting between West Germany’s Helmut Kohl and Russia’s
July 3, 1987 – A Day Crammed With Dissent – Panama, Haiti, South Korea.
July 3, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 3, 1987 – thirty years ago today. Dissidence all over the world, it seemed. From Panama, riots and demonstrations both for and against Panamanian strongman/ruler Manuel Noriega were continuing with not much let-up in sight.
June 30, 1983 – Message From Cardinal Glemp – Guatemala’s Furtive Glimpse Of Democracy
June 30, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + 9:00 network news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 30, 1983 – Hopeful messages and unsure ones. Beginning with the arrival in Rome of Cardinal Glemp of Warsaw. Glemp came with a message to Pope John Paul II,
June 23, 1982 – Lebanon: A Clash Of Tanks – ERA: A Clash Of Ideologies
June 23, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 am News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 23, 1982. A day of battles and taking to the streets, for a lot of reasons and with a lot of results. In Lebanon, Israeli and Syrians tanks and
Dead Can Dance In Session – 1983 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Dead Can Dance – In Session for John Peel – November 19, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Starting off the week with Dead Can Dance and their first session for John Peel, recorded on November 19, 1983 and broadcast on November 26th. Along with The Cocteau Twins, Dead Can
June 19, 1982 – No Crying For Argentina – Broken Ceasefires Over Beirut
June 19, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 19, 1982 – A day of mixed messages and signals. With the ceasefire officially broken in Beirut, fighting continued between PLO forces and Israeli troops. Israel resumed its bombing of Beirut and firing on PLO
The March Violets In Session – 1984 – Past Daily Soundbooth
The March Violets – in session for John Peel – June 12, 1984 – Broadcast, June 19m 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – The March Violets tonight. One of the Post-Punk bands from Leeds in the UK who pioneered Goth and were closely associated to another Goth/Post-Punk band, Sisters Of
June 15, 1988 – Soviet Union: “If This Is What Perestroika Brings . . .” – And Bros Will Be Bros.
June 15, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1988 – With the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev receiving mixed marks for his Perestroika reforms, all eyes in Moscow were gazing towards the south and regions of Armenia and Azerbaijan as a potential flashpoint
Artery In Session – 1982 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Artery – in session for John Peel – January 30, 1982- Broadcast February 15, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Artery in session for John Peel tonight. If we had the Internet in 1980, and we were able to have the kind of access to bands now that we didn’t