"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 1980 – CBS Radio – Harry Reasoner news And Comment – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Things we take for granted now are things we thought impossible a decade or two before. Culture has changed so much since this report from legendary journalist Harry Reasoner first aired (on May...
Fun Boy Three – In Session for Kid Jensen – BBC Radio 1 – Jan. 16, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Fun Boy Three tonight. A little change of pace, even for 12 minutes. Fun Boy Three came about after Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Neville Staple left The...
Depeche Mode – In Concert at The Hammersmith Odeon, London – November 2, 1984 – BBC Radio 1 – In Concert Series – BBC Radio – Depeche Mode in concert this weekend. With origins beginning in 1977, they were highly influenced by The Cure and later, Ultravox, and Depeche Mode,...
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...
– Balthazar – Live at Song Of The Year 2015 – Dec. 11, 2015 – NPO3 – Netherlands – Balthazar in concert tonight. The Belgian indie sensations concluded their set literally hours ago, as part of the Live presentation of the Song Of The Year 2015 program, broadcast by NPO3...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Robert Palmer – Live at The Savoy, San Francisco – April 7, 1976 – KSAN-FM Robert Palmer is probably best known these days via his Addicted To Love video, playing the suave, cooly-detached singer against a backdrop of equally cool and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Missing Persons – Live At My Father’s Place – August 25, 1981 – WLIR-FM Kicking off the holiday weekend with a set from 80s darlings Missing Persons, recorded live in concert at My Father’s Place in Roslyn, New York on August...
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...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – 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...
