"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Nuremberg Trial report – Mutual News – December 13, 1945 – December 1945 marked the continuation of one of the most famous trials in modern history.Starting in November, the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial assembled high ranking and influential members of…
Flu season, just like clockwork – fever, chills, aching, sweats. You’ve just thrown up everything you’ve ever had in your stomach since you were five. Your hair hurts. The best you can do is just lie there, encased in blankets,…
The Style Council – in session at The BBC – May 5, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – The Style Council tonight. Their first session for the BBC (not John Peel, it appears). Fresh from the Mod trenches with The…
– News for December 9, 1941 – Reports and bulletins – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 9, 1941 and America had a bad case of nerves. Rumors flew of hostile plane sightings all up and down the West Coast,…
John Lennon – a life ended at the end of a gun outside The Dakota Apartments in New York City, 42 years ago tonight. In the 42 years since his death, so much has been written, speculated over, investigated and…
Mott The Hoople – Live at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium -April 12, 1974 – KMET-FM broadcast Become a Patron! Classic 70s tonight – Mott The Hoople live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, broadcast live by KMET-FM in L.A.…
On this day in 1944 it was the third anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that got the U.S. involved in World War 2. So on December 7, 1944 war was raging on all fronts, along with…
Groundhogs – in concert – 1972 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert series – Groundhogs in concert this week. The venerable 3-piece Power Trio, who started off as a Blues band and quickly evolved into one of the more precedent-setting…
– Fritz Kreisler – 80th birthday celebration – Feb. 2, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fritz Kreisler was probably one of the most famous and recognizable violinists of the early 20th century. He came along at the dawn…
ABC News Around The World – December 2, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Peace seemed to be the illusive goal, this December 2nd in 1967. With fighting in Vietnam continuing, B-52’s staging raids, South Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia…