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How did the sound of a 1937 car crash become an unlikely pop craze?

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 10 Jul 2008 at 8:03 pm under Podcasts | Link
Babs Gonzales was crazy, man, crazy.

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 01 Jul 2008 at 11:34 am under Podcasts | Link
Joe Meek’s story ended with a bang.

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 07 May 2008 at 12:57 pm under Podcasts | Link
“Telstar” pushed Joe Meek into the pop stratosphere.

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 07 May 2008 at 12:48 pm under Podcasts | Link
Was he genius… nuts… or both?

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 07 May 2008 at 12:38 pm under Podcasts | Link
His music has enhanced films of every genre… and even video games!

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 08 Apr 2008 at 5:37 pm under Podcasts | Link
Just like the rest of the U.S. in the 1950s, pop music went commie crazy.

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 06 Nov 2007 at 2:26 pm under Podcasts | Link
How pop music learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.
After the Soviet Union developed their own hydrogen bomb, America’s dreams of an atomic future morphed into nightmares of nuclear annihilation instead. Once again, the popular music industry was right there, simultaneously reflecting — and feeding — the now-terrified U.S. zeitgeist.

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 06 Nov 2007 at 2:12 pm under Podcasts | Link
In the 1950s, America burned with atomic fever.

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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 06 Nov 2007 at 1:59 pm under Podcasts | Link
He died in flames — but for decades, Vivian Stanshall burned with the incandescent glow of his own off-kilter brilliance.

NOTES - The Eccentric Genius of Vivian Stanshall [4:30m]:
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Posted by Craven Lovelace on 21 Oct 2007 at 12:40 pm under Podcasts | Link