– CBS World News Roundup – March 13, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in 1985 started with a funeral. Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko, after only 13 months in office, had died. His successor, a relative unknown (to all except a few Russia-watchers) by the name of Mikhail
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August 29, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 29, 1979 – Only days after the assassination death of Lord Mountbatten, Irish police were busy rounding up suspects; members of the Irish Republican Army who took credit for the bombing. They went
Terry In session for Marc Riley – June 26, 2017 – BBC 6 Music – Australian Indie/Experimental/Dolewave band Terry, in session tonight for Marc Riley at BBC 6 Music and recorded on June of last year. Terry is Xanthe Waite, Zephyr Pavey, Al Montfort and Amy Hill. The band’s four
Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang – 1981 – Virgin Records Heaven 17 – still around – still gigging. But in 1981 they released this song and they made it clear that, like so many felt at the time, the state of the world was going
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
May 25, 1986 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 25, 1986 – Thirty years to the day, America held hands with each other in the name of poverty and hunger and it became a huge media lovefest. Hands Across America was the brainchild of
– Kate Tempest – Live At Trans Musicales 2014 – Rennes, France – December 4, 2014 – RFI-FIP – Kate Tempest tonight. Considered one of the brightest and most promising of new talents, Tempest has made a serious name for herself in the area of Rap and Poetry and is
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 5, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. This day in 1984 was the big Primary day; the last one before the conventions before everybody settled down to make promises. California was the
