Irish children sing "Men Behind the Wire", protesting British internment.
Israel's policies of mass imprisonment & detention of Palestinians are learned, not invented.
Resistance, too, is as old as these violent colonial policies.
This clip is from Children in Crossfire (1974)
Joy Division’s legendary performance of “She’s Lost Control” on the BBC’s Something Else show (recorded Sept 1, 1979, broadcast Sept 15) is one of post-punk’s defining moments. Filmed in a stark, unadorned Manchester studio, this rare national television appearance perfectly captured the bleak beauty, mechanical rhythms, and raw emotional intensity of the band.
I'm my third and final post in tribute to the great Stanley Unwin, I give you what is basically magic mushrooms for the ears!
Professor Unwin meets the voice of Bill and Ben, Peter Hawkins, in a feature for the TV show, Points of View.
Greetings and welcode. Deep joy.
If only someone in the media would expose Farage's incitement yesterday via performative utterance in the same way that Jonathan Miller humiliated Enoch Powell and his grubby little racism.
What’s going on in Southampton isn’t about injustice, it’s about male violence.
It’s knuckle dragging scum being incited into angry mobs by multimillionaires.
They’re bored, racist radicalised idiots.
It's 31 years ago to the day that this was broadcast - for my money one of the most joyous bits of TV ever committed to celluloid.
It is, of course, Mr Sting's appearence on The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.
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Óglach Michael Gaughan's funeral procession in England. He was brought from Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight to Kilburn in North London for a requiem mass as hundreds came out to pay their respects. (June 1974)
Who invented communism? For me it's Etienne Cabet, the so-called "utopian" socialist - whose grasp of the challenge turned out to be a lot more real than Marx & Engels.... more in Reds: A Global History of Communism coming soon ... https://t.co/nSkoq7Bqtw
It was 59 years ago today...that Sgt Pepper was released.
5 months later Carol Burnett with Bobbie Gentry, Gwen Virdon and Phyllis Diller paid tribute on the 6th ever Carol Burnett Show.