Posts Tagged ‘BBC’
65th anniversary of the landings at Normandy: D-day
Posted by: yourdailyintake on: June 6, 2009
So today is the 65th anniversary of the landings at Normandy. I watched the BBC broadcast today and have great respect for all that have fought and all that have died in WW2. A few years ago I went on vacation to Normandy and saw the more than 9000 white crosses of fallen U.S. soldiers [...]
Hotel California: LA from the Byrds to the Eagles
Posted by: yourdailyintake on: November 29, 2008
Documentary looking at the music and mythology of a golden era in Californian culture, and telling the story of how Los Angeles changed from a kooky backwater in the early 1960s to become the artistic and industrial hub of the American music industry by the end of the 1970s.Alongside extensive and never before seen archive [...]
The Story of the Guitar
Posted by: yourdailyintake on: October 6, 2008
- In: Music
- 6 Comments
Some of my readers know that I have been playing this wonderful instrument since I was a little girl. I started with classical guitar but the electric guitar was always lurking in the background (my parents weren’t that enthousiastic about that in the beginning, afraid that I would blow up the house with the amplifier [...]
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