"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC: London Report with Brian Matthew – Week ending May 5, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. No question; 1977 was a year things were changing. The bubbling-under influence of Punk and New Wave was grabbing attention,...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Symphony – Nino Sanzogno, cond. – Pietro Scarpini, Piano – May 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another historic concert from the vault. This week it’s the BBC Symphony, in concert from Royal Festival Hall in...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Billy Joel – in concert at Nassau Coliseum – December 11, 1977 – WLIR-FM I will admit, Billy Joel is an artist I don’t believe I have ever run on any of my Music posts here at...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Roy Harper -Live at Golders Green Hippodrome – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 Although Roy Harper is widely recognized as one of the most unique and individual singer-songwriters to come along in many years, and his associations...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Tourists – Live At The Paris Theater, London – June 23, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 The Tourists had a reasonable following in the U.S., but nothing compared to the success when Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart left to form...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Eurythmics live in Berlin – June 7, 1987 – RBB Berlin Certainly, of all the bands qualifying as the one it wouldn’t have been the 80s without, Eurythmics has to go high on that list. Darlings of MTV at a time...
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