Category: Popular Culture
June 10, 1935 – Birth Of A Fellowship – The Founding Of Alcoholics Anonymous
Cited in Life Magazine as one of the most influential movements of the 20th Century, the movement that gave birth to the concept of the 12-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous got its start on June 10th 1935. Not without its detractors, naysayers, gurus, pontificators and bashers, Alcoholics Anonymous has maintained its
Cable TV: Is There A Future? – 1968 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
– Newsfront – The Future of Cable TV – Dec. 16, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Difficult to imagine now, but in 1968 there was talk about Cable TV coming into our lives – and we weren’t quite sure why. Cable TV had been around for a while;
Shed Seven In Session – 1994 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Shed Seven – In Session at BBC Radio 1 – 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – Shed Seven to drag us into the weekend. One of the criminally overlooked and underrated bands of the Post-Smiths/Britpop era, Shed Seven never got the mainstream attention peers like Oasis and Blur got, but
California Votes For Austerity: Prop 13 Becomes Law – June 8, 1978
– CBS News – June 8, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1978 was an interesting one if you lived in California. The Jarvis-Gann Initiative, or Prop 13 was passed by a landslide vote in the off-year elections. The tax initiative, which froze property taxes and
China Crisis In Session – 1983 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Synthpop pioneers China Crisis in session for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 – January, 1983
The Promise Of Educational Television – 1967 – Past Daily Reference Room
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Ike & Tina Turner Live In Paris 1971 – Past Daily Tribute Edition: Tina Turner: The Early Legacy
– Ike & Tina Turner – Live At L’Olympia, Paris – January 30, 1971 – RTL – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ike & Tina Turner, live at the legendary Olympia in Paris from January 30, 1971. They always said James Brown was the hardest working man in show business