Category: 1981
Lora Logic In Session For John Peel – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Lora Logic – in session for John Peel – May 26, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Lora Logic tonight. A name synonymous with the Punk/New-Wave scene of the late 70s/early 80s. Her unique and distinctive sax playing, was prevalent in the early days of X-Ray Spex, a band she
Solidarity In Silesia – Miners On Strike – An Emergency In Stirling Heights – December 27, 1981 –
– December 27, 1981 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 27, 1981 – Solidarity, despite official news reports to the contrary, was anything but dead. The protests now extended to the coal fields in Silesia, where over 1,000 Miners went on Strike,
Poland And The Martial Law Problem: “Nobody Leaves, Nobody Moves . . .” – December 23, 1981 –
December 23, 1981 – CBS Radio News On The Hour + Spectrum Commentaries – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 23, 1981 – A week of Martial Law in Poland – a week of crackdowns and a week where unrest continued. The news broadcasts beaming from Warsaw were largely repetitious
Missing Persons In Concert – 1981 – Past Daily Weekend Soundbooth
– Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM – Ending out the weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York on August 28, 1981. Difficult to imagine big hair and
Missing Presumed Dead – In Session – 1981 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Missing Presumed Dead – in session for John Peel – January 6, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Leaving Ukraine this week for an excursion around the lesser-known bands and artists the past few decades. Missing Presumed Dead, like so many other bands of the period, formed out of the
ABBA – Live In Concert – 1981 – Past Daily Backstage Pass
– Abba – Live In Concert – 1981 – Abba Fan Club Recording Commemorating their 1981 Tour – Truly 70s this weekend – even though the concert is from 1981 and one of the last before ABBA broke up. Nonetheless, it’s a record of just what a wildly popular mainstream
January 20, 1981 – Upstaging An Inauguration With A Hostage Release – All Eyes On The Tarmac In Tehran.
A busy day, this January 20th. While pre-Inaugural balls were going on in one part of Washington for the upcoming swearing-in of Ronald Reagan, negotiations were reaching a fevered pitch in the final hours of the Carter White House. And while the Inauguration was getting ready to take place, it
December 22, 1981 – Continuing Crackdown In Poland – Florida’s Cold Wave
A crackdown in Poland highlighted the news on this December 22nd in 1981. The Solidarity Movement, which was gaining momentum was abruptly halted when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and cited a threatened intervention by Soviet forces to seize control of the country. But on this day in 1981,
December 21, 1981 – Poland’s Military Goes After The Church – Arrests And Threats
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