You’ll Never Be Sixteen Again – Episode One – 1945-1956 – BBC Radio 1 – 1985 – Narrated by John Peel – BBC Radio – I suspect most Americans have never heard this documentary series “You’ll Never Be Sixteen Again”, a seven part series produced by the BBC and narrated
– 1976-11-06 BBC In Concert (Electric Light Orchestra) – BBC Radio 1 When I first ran into ELO it was around the time of their initial U.S.tour. Roll Over Beethoven had been released and everyone I ran into was pretty high on the band and the audience was starting to
– Pretty Things – BBC Session – Nov. 27, 1967 – One of those bands that have been largely overlooked by the mainstream when it comes to talking about influential groups of the 60s. The Pretty Things were always considered just a little too “edgy” for the tastes of the
– BBC Radio 4/5 Live – July 5, 2005 – reports/bulletins – BBC Radio – Terror visited London, this July 7th in 2005. At first, sketchy reports and tentative explanations of “huge power surges”. But as news emerged by eyewitnesses of several explosions in London’s Underground, coupled with news of
NBC News of The World – June 10, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection War news on most all fronts, this June 10th in 1942. Reports on the air war in the Pacific, with Allied successes being reported, but notes that Japanese fighter planes were out maneuvering our fighter planes,
Since we’re in the middle of the weekend, I thought I’d get things partly rolling with a classic T.Rex concert, recorded at Wembley on March 18, 1972. There’s a lot of live T. Rex material out there, but unfortunately, not much is very good. This one sounds excellent and it
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– May 16, 1938 – Radio Prague News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 16, 1938 – It didn’t seem so ominous at the time, but news from Prague over the situation in Czechoslovakia was becoming one of concern throughout Europe. The issue of lands under Czech control which
– Echo & The Bunnymen- Live from Liverpool Empire – January 11, 1988 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert Echo & The Bunnymen in concert tonight. Recorded live at the Liverpool Empire in 1988 by BBC Radio 1 for their In Concert series. As a band who started life
With the very sad news earlier this week of the death of Saint’s founder and front man Chris Bailey, news that went by almost unnoticed before it was discovered by several fans, one of the cornerstone figures of the Punk movement in the 70s, and one of the key figures
