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Elton John – Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1973 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert Series – BBC Radio 1 Elton John live at Hammersmith Odeon – Christmas 1973. Maybe no sign of Jingle Bells anywhere, but the festive spirit is alive and well and Elton, even with a cold, gives...
– BBC Radio – Top Of The Pops – Week 17 – 1965 – BBC Transcription Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Prior to the emergence of The Beatles, British Pop Music didn’t get nearly the attention it got after The Beatles arrived. Programs like Top Of The Pops,...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Searchers – In Session at Sveriges Radio – December 1964 – Sveriges Radio Taking a brief detour around the 1960s tonight. A session from The Searchers, one of the more popular of the British Invasion acts...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Conversation “What Is The Jukebox Saying? – Feb. 15, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. It’s hard to imagine that, 60 years ago, Rock n’ Roll represented the end of society as we knew...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Martha Stuart: Are You Listening? – Boys With Long Hair – July 1970 Anyone reading this who was born after 1970 will have no idea what the deal was. It was all about hair in the 1960s...
If you like what we do and you want to help keep it going . . . .Become a Patron! I have to keep reminding myself the British Invasion (as it was known) was over 50 years ago. The historic significance of The Beatles and Rolling Stones is certainly well...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Moody Blues – Go Now – BBC Saturday Club – April 1965 – BBC Radio 1 Sadly, only one track has survived (so far) from The Moody Blues from this session. This one from the BBC...
Something interesting happened around the time of the British Invasion in the early 1960s’; teenagers in America were suddenly discovered to be a massive consumer market. Not that there hasn’t always been a goodly chunk of the population hovering under 30 – it’s just this particular generation, the one that’s...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – WTBS, Cambridge Mass – Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James In Session – October 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Switching gears again this week – a taste of rural blues by Masters Mississippi John Hurt and Skip James, recorded live...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 10cc – In Concert Series – Live in London – August 231, 1974 – BBC Radio 1 Depending on how you looked at it, 10cc were one of the most successful Pop/Rock/Art-Rock/Soft Rock bands of the 70s. And it was just...
