Friday, 11 March 2016
The making of Tomorrow Never Knows
The Beatles without George Martin's audio innovations? Hmmm...the Beatles with Glasgow or Newcastle accents instead of their Liverpudlian warmth? Hmmm...
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Orkestra Obsolete - Blue Monday
New Order's classic Blue Monday was released on 7 March 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop music forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? In a special film, using only instruments available in the 1930s - from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano - the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you've never heard it before.
Wire in January 1977 at Watford Art School
Slim Smith says: 16mm footage shot for an art school project on 20 January 1977. I don't know what songs they were actually performing, but I've used the Roxy Club version of 12XU
The Disc Jockeys (BBC Man Alive 11/2/70)
The early days of BBC Radio1 featuring Emperor Rosko, John Peel, Jimmy Young, Kenny Everett and Tony Blackburn
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