Click on the link here for Audio Player – Peter Gabriel – live at Great Woods Performing Arts Center, Mansfield, MA – July 16, 1987 Despite dire predictions from fans and press alike, when Peter Gabriel departed Genesis to pursue a solo career, the fortunes of the remaining Genesis members
Depeche Mode – In Concert at The Hammersmith Apollo, London – October 6, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert Series – BBC Radio – Depeche Mode in concert this morning. With origins beginning in 1977, they were highly influenced by The Cure and later, Ultravox, and Depeche Mode,
– NPR: Options – Isaac Asimov: I, Thou, and the Computer – October 10, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The phrase “Garbage In – Garbage Out” was how Isaac Asimov summed up the coming age of Computers in 1974. And fifty years later the prediction remains eerily true.
– 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 when MTV was getting started, massively popular
– Fun Boy Three – In Session for Kid Jensen – BBC Radio 1 – Jan. 16, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Editors Note: In case you missed it, Terry Hall who was lead singer for The Specials, passed away earlier today from what has been described as a
– Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM – Ending out the weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York on August 28, 1981. Difficult to imagine big hair and
The Bangles – In Concert at Syria Mosque – Pittsburgh – December 13, 1986 I have particularly fond memories of working with The Bangles, which is probably why I enjoyed this concert so much. I remember doing the video for Manic Monday just before Christmas in 1985 and how we
The Fixx – in concert at The Paris Theatre, London – 1982 – BBC In Concert series – BBC Radio 1 – The Fixx – one of the prime examples of a band who were catapulted to stardom via exposure on MTV. Initially a rock band known simply as The
Fuzzbox – in session for John Peel – March 1, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Fuzzbox, or their complete name; We’ve Got A Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It, got together in 1985, and by 1986 already had their first hit record. In fact, their album produced a slew
